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🎟️ Tracking

https://bitwarden.atlassian.net/browse/PM-24127

📔 Objective

The current masterkey logic is complex to understand for using teams (auth), and also prone to error. When any setting changes / gets out of sync, such as the email, or kdf, then decryption fails. The masterkey is further too widely scoped, used both in an authentication protocol, and in unlock decryption.

This PR introduces a PasswordProtectedKeyEnvelope. The goal is to protect a symmetric key with a password securely. Internally, this uses a KDF, and the KDF settings (argon2 parameters, and random salt) are stored on the serialized object.

That means that the only thing needed to unlock this structure is the correct password, everything else is stored on the object, making this process much less error prone. At the same time the interface is easier to use.

An example is provided to show usage.

A follow-up PR will add an unlock method / enrollment for PIN based on this new cryptographic API.

Note: Only argon2 is supported here. The PasswordProtectedKeyEnvelope's settings are completely decoupled from the account settings, and we don't need to provide backwards compatibility to non-recommended legacy cryptographic algorithms (pbkdf2).

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@quexten quexten changed the title [RFC] Implement password-protected key envelope [PM-24127] Implement password-protected key envelope Jul 29, 2025
@quexten quexten marked this pull request as ready for review July 29, 2025 12:31
@quexten quexten requested review from a team as code owners July 29, 2025 12:31
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I really like this new interface, great work. Some minor things to take a look at from me.

@quexten quexten requested a review from Hinton August 11, 2025 09:59
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LGTM

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