[eviks]

> I’m saying that you might as well use a purpose built encryption container tool.

Which is what keepass is, it just fails in a few ways (built to contain passwords and attachments) some of which are what the format change suggestion is supposed to fix. So I don't understand the conceptual disconnect.

> passing around a file with dumb syncing is always going to have issues

That's true of everything, including the protocol. But also, how does it help if you think the protocol is out of scope anyway, so shouldn't block non-ideal improvements? Let's not perfect be the enemy of the good?