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I am working on hotel software. And we are doing an automated kiosk check in with identity scanning. I’m seriously stressed about holding on to this kind of toxic waste. I am trying to limit it as much as possible. For example throwing away scans as fast as possible (within regulatory allowances). But I would love to hear any ideas anyone has in terms of further security. Obviously the documents are not just on a public bucket. But I’m considering maybe encrypting each document with a separate key, or something along those lines.


Encrypt the data with an asymmetric key; and keep the decryption key somewhere offline. You can get a hardware token to store the key on (I think a yubikey can do this).




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