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keeporg/internal/kdbx/kdbx.go
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root 5d66871527 Add a KDBX 4 codec: read, write, create
Why: merging two edits of a vault means decrypting it, so the server needs a
real KeePass implementation. Nothing else in this repository can be built on
guesswork about the format.

What: internal/kdbx reads and writes KDBX 4.0/4.1 with AES-256-CBC or
ChaCha20 payloads, AES-KDF or Argon2d/Argon2id derivation, and the ChaCha20
inner stream for protected values. ChaCha20, BLAKE2b and Argon2 are
implemented here, since the standard library has none of them and this
repository carries no third-party dependencies.

The XML payload is kept as a generic node tree rather than Go structs on
purpose: a merge server that dropped elements it did not model would silently
destroy data written by a newer KeePass. Anything unrecognised round-trips
untouched. Unsupported ciphers, KDFs and KDBX 3 files are reported as such
rather than guessed at, so a caller can fall back instead of losing data.

Proved: ChaCha20 against RFC 8439, BLAKE2b against RFC 7693, all three
Argon2 variants against RFC 9106. Round trips preserve unknown elements and
multi-line values; a wrong password, a flipped payload byte and a flipped
header byte are each rejected. Entry passwords appear nowhere in the file,
encrypted or merely compressed. And the part that actually matters:
keepassxc-cli 2.7.10 lists, reads and decrypts the protected values of a
vault this code wrote, including at the production Argon2d cost, and this
code reads back the file KeePassXC saves after editing it.
2026-10-29 17:10:37 +01:00

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package kdbx
import (
"bytes"
"compress/gzip"
"crypto/rand"
"crypto/sha256"
"crypto/sha512"
"crypto/subtle"
"encoding/base64"
"encoding/binary"
"errors"
"fmt"
"io"
)
// Binary is an attachment, stored once in the file's pool and referenced
// from entries by index.
type Binary struct {
// Flags is the KDBX protection flag byte; bit 0 asks the client to keep
// the content in protected memory.
Flags byte
Data []byte
}
// Database is a decrypted KDBX file: its format parameters, its attachment
// pool and its XML document.
type Database struct {
Version uint32
Cipher []byte
Compression uint32
KDF variantDict
PublicData variantDict
Binaries []Binary
// Root is the KeePassFile element. Everything the format carries lives
// under it, including elements this package does not interpret.
Root *Node
}
// KDFParams describes the work factor a new database is created with.
type KDFParams struct {
// Argon2 parameters. MemoryKiB and Iterations are what make an attack
// expensive; they are also what a merging server pays on every push.
MemoryKiB uint32
Iterations uint32
Lanes uint8
}
// DefaultKDF is deliberately lighter than the KeePass desktop default: a
// server re-derives the key three times per merge, so the cost is paid on
// every save by every member of the vault.
var DefaultKDF = KDFParams{MemoryKiB: 32 * 1024, Iterations: 2, Lanes: 2}
// Open decrypts and parses a KDBX 4 file.
func Open(data []byte, password string) (*Database, error) {
if len(data) < 12 {
return nil, errors.New("kdbx: file is too short")
}
if binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[0:]) != signature1 ||
binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[4:]) != signature2 {
return nil, errors.New("kdbx: not a KeePass 2 database")
}
version := binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[8:])
if major := version >> 16; major != 4 {
return nil, unsupported("KDBX %d.%d; this server stores KDBX 4 vaults",
major, version&0xFFFF)
}
db := &Database{Version: version}
p := 12
for {
if p+5 > len(data) {
return nil, errors.New("kdbx: truncated header")
}
id := data[p]
size := int(binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(data[p+1:]))
p += 5
if size < 0 || p+size > len(data) {
return nil, errors.New("kdbx: truncated header field")
}
field := data[p : p+size]
p += size
switch id {
case hdrEnd:
goto headerDone
case hdrCipherID:
db.Cipher = append([]byte(nil), field...)
case hdrCompression:
if len(field) != 4 {
return nil, errors.New("kdbx: malformed compression flags")
}
db.Compression = binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(field)
case hdrMasterSeed:
// Kept locally; it never leaves this function.
case hdrEncryptionIV:
case hdrKdfParameters:
vd, err := parseVariantDict(field)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
db.KDF = vd
case hdrPublicCustomData:
vd, err := parseVariantDict(field)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
db.PublicData = vd
case hdrComment:
case hdrTransformSeed, hdrTransformRounds, hdrInnerStreamKey3,
hdrStreamStartBytes, hdrInnerStreamID3:
return nil, unsupported("KDBX 3 header field %d in a KDBX 4 file", id)
}
}
headerDone:
headerBytes := data[:p]
masterSeed := headerField(data[12:p], hdrMasterSeed)
iv := headerField(data[12:p], hdrEncryptionIV)
if len(masterSeed) != 32 {
return nil, errors.New("kdbx: master seed has the wrong length")
}
if len(db.Cipher) != 16 {
return nil, errors.New("kdbx: file names no payload cipher")
}
if p+64 > len(data) {
return nil, errors.New("kdbx: file ends before its integrity hashes")
}
storedSHA := data[p : p+32]
storedHMAC := data[p+32 : p+64]
sum := sha256.Sum256(headerBytes)
if subtle.ConstantTimeCompare(sum[:], storedSHA) != 1 {
return nil, errors.New("kdbx: header does not match its checksum")
}
k, err := deriveKeys(masterSeed, db.KDF, password)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if subtle.ConstantTimeCompare(headerHMAC(k.hmac, headerBytes), storedHMAC) != 1 {
return nil, ErrWrongPassword
}
payload, err := readBlocks(data[p+64:], k.hmac)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
plain, err := decryptPayload(db.Cipher, k.payload, iv, payload)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if db.Compression == 1 {
if plain, err = gunzip(plain); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("kdbx: decompress: %w", err)
}
} else if db.Compression != 0 {
return nil, unsupported("compression algorithm %d", db.Compression)
}
streamID, streamKey, xmlBytes, err := db.readInnerHeader(plain)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
root, err := parseXML(xmlBytes)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
db.Root = root
if err := db.applyInnerStream(streamID, streamKey, false); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return db, nil
}
// Marshal encrypts the database back into a KDBX 4 file. Every save gets
// fresh seeds, a fresh IV and a fresh inner stream key.
func (d *Database) Marshal(password string) ([]byte, error) {
if d.Root == nil {
return nil, errors.New("kdbx: database has no document")
}
cipherID := d.Cipher
if len(cipherID) != 16 {
cipherID = cipherAES256CBC
}
ivLen := 16
if bytes.Equal(cipherID, cipherChaCha20Outer) {
ivLen = 12
}
masterSeed := randomBytes(32)
iv := randomBytes(ivLen)
streamKey := randomBytes(64)
kdf := d.KDF
if _, ok := kdf.get("$UUID"); !ok {
kdf = newArgon2Params(DefaultKDF)
}
// A new salt per save, so two saves never share a transformed key.
switch {
case bytes.Equal(kdf.bytes("$UUID"), kdfAES):
kdf.set(vdByteArray, "S", randomBytes(32))
default:
kdf.set(vdByteArray, "S", randomBytes(32))
}
d.KDF = kdf
// Protect values on a copy so the in-memory tree stays plaintext and can
// be marshalled again.
protectedRoot := d.Root.clone()
if err := applyStream(protectedRoot, streamChaCha20, streamKey, true); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
var payload bytes.Buffer
payload.Write(d.innerHeader(streamChaCha20, streamKey))
payload.Write(marshalXML(protectedRoot))
body := payload.Bytes()
if d.Compression == 1 {
var gz bytes.Buffer
w := gzip.NewWriter(&gz)
if _, err := w.Write(body); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if err := w.Close(); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
body = gz.Bytes()
}
version := d.Version
if version>>16 != 4 {
version = Version4
}
header := d.outerHeader(version, cipherID, masterSeed, iv, kdf)
k, err := deriveKeys(masterSeed, kdf, password)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
encrypted, err := encryptPayload(cipherID, k.payload, iv, body)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
out := make([]byte, 0, len(header)+64+len(encrypted)+64)
out = append(out, header...)
sum := sha256.Sum256(header)
out = append(out, sum[:]...)
out = append(out, headerHMAC(k.hmac, header)...)
return append(out, writeBlocks(encrypted, k.hmac)...), nil
}
// outerHeader serializes the unencrypted header.
func (d *Database) outerHeader(version uint32, cipherID, masterSeed, iv []byte,
kdf variantDict) []byte {
out := make([]byte, 12)
binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(out[0:], signature1)
binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(out[4:], signature2)
binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(out[8:], version)
add := func(id byte, data []byte) {
out = append(out, id)
out = binary.LittleEndian.AppendUint32(out, uint32(len(data)))
out = append(out, data...)
}
add(hdrCipherID, cipherID)
add(hdrCompression, binary.LittleEndian.AppendUint32(nil, d.Compression))
add(hdrMasterSeed, masterSeed)
add(hdrEncryptionIV, iv)
add(hdrKdfParameters, kdf.marshal())
if len(d.PublicData.items) > 0 {
add(hdrPublicCustomData, d.PublicData.marshal())
}
add(hdrEnd, []byte{0x0D, 0x0A, 0x0D, 0x0A})
return out
}
// readInnerHeader splits the decrypted payload into its inner header, which
// carries the attachment pool, and the XML that follows it.
func (d *Database) readInnerHeader(plain []byte) (streamID uint32, streamKey, xmlBytes []byte, err error) {
p := 0
d.Binaries = nil
for {
if p+5 > len(plain) {
return 0, nil, nil, errors.New("kdbx: truncated inner header")
}
id := plain[p]
size := int(binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(plain[p+1:]))
p += 5
if size < 0 || p+size > len(plain) {
return 0, nil, nil, errors.New("kdbx: truncated inner header field")
}
field := plain[p : p+size]
p += size
switch id {
case innerEnd:
return streamID, streamKey, plain[p:], nil
case innerStreamID:
if len(field) != 4 {
return 0, nil, nil, errors.New("kdbx: malformed inner stream id")
}
streamID = binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(field)
case innerStreamKey:
streamKey = append([]byte(nil), field...)
case innerBinary:
if len(field) < 1 {
return 0, nil, nil, errors.New("kdbx: malformed attachment")
}
d.Binaries = append(d.Binaries, Binary{
Flags: field[0],
Data: append([]byte(nil), field[1:]...),
})
}
}
}
func (d *Database) innerHeader(streamID uint32, streamKey []byte) []byte {
out := []byte{}
add := func(id byte, data []byte) {
out = append(out, id)
out = binary.LittleEndian.AppendUint32(out, uint32(len(data)))
out = append(out, data...)
}
add(innerStreamID, binary.LittleEndian.AppendUint32(nil, streamID))
add(innerStreamKey, streamKey)
for _, b := range d.Binaries {
add(innerBinary, append([]byte{b.Flags}, b.Data...))
}
add(innerEnd, nil)
return out
}
// applyInnerStream decrypts the protected values of this database's tree.
func (d *Database) applyInnerStream(streamID uint32, key []byte, protect bool) error {
return applyStream(d.Root, streamID, key, protect)
}
// applyStream runs the inner stream cipher across every protected value in
// document order, which is the order KeePass itself uses.
func applyStream(root *Node, streamID uint32, key []byte, protect bool) error {
var stream *chacha20
switch streamID {
case streamNone:
case streamChaCha20:
h := sha512.Sum512(key)
stream = newChaCha20(h[0:32], h[32:44], 0)
case streamSalsa20:
return unsupported("Salsa20 inner stream (KDBX 3)")
default:
return unsupported("inner stream cipher %d", streamID)
}
var err error
root.walk(func(n *Node) {
if err != nil || !n.Protected || len(n.Nodes) > 0 {
return
}
if stream == nil {
return // nothing to do, values are stored in the clear
}
if protect {
plain := []byte(n.Text)
out := make([]byte, len(plain))
stream.XORKeyStream(out, plain)
n.Text = base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(out)
return
}
raw, derr := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(n.Text)
if derr != nil {
err = fmt.Errorf("kdbx: protected value in <%s> is not base64: %w", n.Name, derr)
return
}
out := make([]byte, len(raw))
stream.XORKeyStream(out, raw)
n.Text = string(out)
})
return err
}
func newArgon2Params(p KDFParams) variantDict {
if p.MemoryKiB == 0 {
p = DefaultKDF
}
var vd variantDict
vd.set(vdByteArray, "$UUID", kdfArgon2d)
vd.set(vdByteArray, "S", randomBytes(32))
vd.setUint32("P", uint32(max(p.Lanes, 1)))
vd.setUint64("M", uint64(p.MemoryKiB)*1024)
vd.setUint64("I", uint64(max(p.Iterations, 1)))
vd.setUint32("V", argon2Version)
return vd
}
// headerField re-reads one field out of the raw header, used for values that
// are needed as bytes but not kept on the Database.
func headerField(fields []byte, want byte) []byte {
p := 0
for p+5 <= len(fields) {
id := fields[p]
size := int(binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(fields[p+1:]))
p += 5
if size < 0 || p+size > len(fields) {
return nil
}
if id == want {
return fields[p : p+size]
}
p += size
if id == hdrEnd {
return nil
}
}
return nil
}
func gunzip(b []byte) ([]byte, error) {
r, err := gzip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(b))
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer r.Close()
// A KDBX payload is a password database, not an archive: cap it.
return io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(r, 512<<20))
}
func randomBytes(n int) []byte {
b := make([]byte, n)
if _, err := rand.Read(b); err != nil {
panic("kdbx: " + err.Error())
}
return b
}