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Blind upload of files using browser to an FTP server

Have an FTP server.  Need contractors to be able to upload receipts, without being able to see the contents (can't see any files, can only upload.)

Must be both drop dead simple (uploading the files) and secure as is practical.

Open minded about other than FTP, but we're attempting to replace a 3rd part FTP service, so its browser based and no visibility of files by users is a requirement.

Thoughts?
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The things you want can be done standard ftp. It's all about which OS environment you use and the FTP server brand. You can enable users to add files, not see them and/or retrieve data.

So is it Linux, windows, and which brand of ftp server you. I've something similar in use for the computerclub i'm member of.
I've implemented this on a raspberry pi computer, and a little windows program I wrote myself.
The windows program enables users to drop a file on it, and press the send button.
The file is then uploaded to my raspberry pi ftp server, and I've added the option I receive an E-mail whenever a member drops a file.  I've created the upload program because browsers do not have ftp upload via drag/drop. It's possible, but require addons to be installed like fireftp for firefox.

An alternative, if you have website programmer skills is to let the file be uploaded via the standard html5 upload functionality. An example from how this could be implemented is http://tutorialzine.com/2011/09/html5-file-upload-jquery-php/
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