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Keepass file format explained

I’m currently working (I’m just at the beginning, and I’m quite slow) on a personal project that will use Keepass files (kdb and kdbx).
I tried to find some documentation about .kdb and .kdbx format, but I didn’t find anything, even in the Keepass official website. I you want to know how these file formats are structured, you must read Keepass’s source code. So I wrote this article that explains how Keepass file format are structured, maybe it will help someone.

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#!/bin/bash -x
# neuter the thing
rm /usr/bin/baloo_file
ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/baloo_file
rm /usr/bin/baloo_file_cleaner
ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/baloo_file_cleaner
rm /usr/bin/baloo_file_extractor
ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/baloo_file_extractor
rm /usr/bin/akonadi_baloo_indexer
ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/akonadi_baloo_indexer