Crypt: Filename Encryption Only

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Onedrive limit file path length to 400 characters while gdrive have a much relaxed limit.
Therefore, I don't encrypt the filename when uploading to onedrive. But I want to encrypt filename on google drive.
Now I have my computer to sync files to onedrive and a VPS to sync files from onedrive to google drive. Since they uses different filename encryption config, the VPS have to decrypt and encrypt every file even though I uses same key.
What if we add an encrypt filename only mode to avoid this?

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That already exists:

You can choose to encrypt on the file names.

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I uses crypt to encrypt file content for both Onedrive and GDrive. Onedrive = crypt file content, GDrive = crypt content + filename.
I want VPS that to sync from Onedrive to GDrive, without decrypt and encrypt file content.

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You'd have to use the same method for encryption on both as there's no --magic flag.

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I did a proof of concept.

My Computer would runs rclone sync {local-path} crypt_onedrive: using

[crypt_onedrive]
    type = crypt
    remote = OD:
    filename_encryption = off
    directory_name_encryption = false
    password = [password1]
    password2 = [password2]
    file_content_encryption = true
    filename_password = [fn_pass]

VPS runs rclone sync crypt_fn_onedrive: crypt_fn_gdrive: using

[crypt_fn_onedrive]
    type = crypt
    remote = OD:
    filename_encryption = off
    directory_name_encryption = false
    password = [fn_pass]
    file_content_encryption = false
[crypt_fn_gdrive]
    type = crypt
    remote = GD:
    filename_encryption = standard
    directory_name_encryption = true
    password = [fn_pass]
    file_content_encryption = false

Access to encrypted gdrive would be

[crypt_gdrive]
    type = crypt
    remote = GD:
    filename_encryption = standard
    directory_name_encryption = true
    password = [password1]
    password2 = [password2]
    file_content_encryption = true
    filename_password = [fn_pass]

This change can avoid re-encryption of file and avoid putting the password on to VPS.

6

Great? I'm not sure what problem you are trying to solve but if you got it working, that's superb.

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I'm pretty sure there is an issue or PR for disabling file encryption already: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/2981

Why do you need a separate password for the file name encryption?

8

That's great.
Separating passwords is a minor issue. I don't want to put my password on VPS just to copy the files, increasing the surface of attack.

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