It’s a paranoid question but: suppose that rclone is a dead project, all sources are lost, but I’ve still the .rclone.conf with password and password2 and I have access to my remote repository from where I can download the encrypted files.
Is there another Linux binary or standard tool (some common script language, Perl, Python or so) with which I can decrypt all my files ?
Regards,
Why would rclone be lost any more than these hypothetical tools which could also get lost?
Just keep a copy of rclone somewhere safe. I’m sure someone will have a copy of it that you can get.
IMO if you can keep your .rclone.conf safe then you can keep the rclone binary safe too.
This part of my message was rather a joke. I'd like to well understand the process of crypting/decrypting used by rclone. And my opinion is that it's for the benefit of rclone to expose alternate methods to handle these files. The confidence in a tool becomes greater when you're not forced to use it.
Well rclone is open source, so you can just look at the encryption method and implementation.