Merge concurrent saves on the server, with vaults created from the web

Why: the point of a sync server is that two people can work at once. Picking
a winner was all this one could do while it could not read a vault.

What, end to end:
- A vault is created at /web or with `keeporg vault -create`: the server
  builds an empty KDBX 4 file, encrypts it with the password from the form,
  and stores it as version 1. An existing database can adopt a stored key
  with `keeporg db -id <id> -store-password`, which is verified against the
  stored file before it is accepted.
- A stale push to a `merge` vault is no longer refused. The server opens the
  stored version and the pushed one in memory, folds them together, and
  stores the re-encrypted result. Clients push as usual and pull what comes
  back. Any failure answers 409 merge_failed and the client keeps its copy
  aside, so a failed merge still loses nothing.
- At rest: vault contents stay KDBX-encrypted as always. A merge vault's
  password is kept AES-256-GCM-wrapped under a master key that lives outside
  the data directory, bound to the vault id, never returned by the API. A
  stolen data directory is ciphertext; a stolen data directory plus the
  master key is not. The server runs without a master key and simply refuses
  to create or merge vaults.

This moves the server inside the trust boundary for vaults it can merge,
which is inherent to merging and is stated plainly in the README, the
handover notes and the web form itself. Key-less strategies are unchanged and
remain the default for a database created without a password.

Proved: two clients editing the same version are merged rather than refused,
the newer edit of one entry wins, a merge failure leaves the stored vault
untouched, `merge` is refused without a stored key, the wrapped key never
appears in state.json or the API, and the web interface rejects a form
without its CSRF token, withholds its cookie over plain http, and only offers
groups the user administers. Checked by hand against the real thing: a vault
created in a browser, edited by keepassxc-cli on two sides from the same
version, merged by the server, and both entries read back out with
keepassxc-cli. make check, make test-race, android lint and both .deb builds
are clean.
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@@ -4,19 +4,29 @@ A synchronization adapter for KeePass. Your databases stay ordinary `.kdbx`
files that KeePassXC, KeePass2 or KeePassDX opens directly; a server keeps
them in step between everyone who has access.
The server never opens a database and cannot read one. Master passwords stay
on the clients.
When two people save at once, the server can **merge** both edits: it opens
the two copies in memory, folds them together by KeePass's own rules and
stores the result. Nothing is lost, and no one has to reconcile two files by
hand.
Merging means decrypting, so a merge vault's password is kept on the server,
encrypted under a master key held outside the data directory. That makes the
server part of your trust boundary. Vaults on any other conflict strategy
keep their key off the server entirely, exactly as before.
- **Server** (`keeporgd`, Linux): hosts many KDBX databases, controls access
with a tree of user groups, accepts registrations by invite link or OIDC,
and pushes updates to connected clients.
merges concurrent edits, and pushes updates to connected clients. Its web
page at `/web` is for creating a vault and setting its password.
- **Desktop client** (`keeporg`, Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD): mirrors every
assigned database into one directory as a real file, pushes each save and
applies what others push.
- **Android client**: the same, published to every file picker as a storage
provider.
No third-party dependencies, no cgo, no FUSE.
No third-party dependencies, no cgo, no FUSE. The KDBX 4 codec, including
ChaCha20, BLAKE2b and Argon2, is part of the repository and is tested against
both the relevant RFCs and a real KeePassXC.
## Quick start
@@ -30,13 +40,15 @@ KEEPORG_ADMIN_PASSWORD=dev-password-1 make run-server
# in another shell
build/linux-arm64/keeporg login -server http://127.0.0.1:8765 -user admin
build/linux-arm64/keeporg groups
build/linux-arm64/keeporg db -create "Team Vault" -group <group-id>
build/linux-arm64/keeporg vault -create "Team Vault" -group <group-id>
build/linux-arm64/keeporg run
```
Then save a new KDBX database as `Team Vault.kdbx` in `~/KeepOrg` from your
KeePass application. It becomes version 1 on the server, and every later save
is pushed automatically.
`Team Vault.kdbx` appears in `~/KeepOrg`; open it in KeePassXC with the vault
password you just set. Every save is pushed, and a save that races with a
colleague's is merged rather than refused.
Or open `http://127.0.0.1:8765/web` and create the vault from the browser.
## Packaging