vault: a password change brings a new master key

:passwd used to wrap the same master key under the new password, so an
old diary.db (a pre-* snapshot, an old revision on Proton Drive) and the
old password still opened every sealed file. It now makes a new master
key. The old password opens nothing from that moment; the old master
key is kept, sealed under the new one, in two new vault columns, only
until every sealed file has been re-sealed.

A background worker does that while the vault is open, without holding
it open. Each file gets a new id with its file key wrapped under the new
master key; its records are copied as they are. The move goes through
the same repointing as :encrypt, so the old id is put on backup_retired
and the mirror purges it from Drive. Which files are left is read off
their headers, so a lock or a restart halfway only pauses the work until
the next unlock. Once none is left, the old key is dropped.

Readers take a Keyring that tries the current key, then the retired
one. A second :passwd is refused until the first has finished. :vault
shows the progress. Every sealed file is uploaded to Proton once more.
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@@ -309,12 +309,17 @@ it back out. `:unlock` and `:lock` open and close it, `:passwd` changes the
password. A sealed file carries a lock in the list, and the bar says `vault
open` while it is.
`:passwd` wraps the same key under the new password, so no file has to be
rewritten — and so it does not take back what the old password opens. A copy
of `diary.db` from before the change (a `diary.db.pre-*` snapshot, a backup in
Proton Drive) still unwraps the key with the old password, and that key still
opens every sealed file. Change the password because you want a new one, not
to shut out someone who has the old one and an old copy.
`:passwd` makes a new master key as well as a new password. The old password
stops opening anything at once; every sealed file is then re-sealed under the
new key in the background, under a new name, while the vault is open — `:vault`
shows how far it has come, and locking halfway only pauses it until the next
`:unlock`. The old copies are deleted from `uploads/` and, on the next mirror
run, from Proton Drive for good. After that, a copy of `diary.db` from before
the change (a `diary.db.pre-*` snapshot, an old revision in Proton Drive) and
the old password open nothing that is still kept anywhere. What they cannot
take back is a copy someone already made of the files themselves. Re-sealing
rewrites only each file's header, but every sealed file is uploaded to Proton
Drive once more. A second `:passwd` waits until the first has finished.
`:encrypt` on a folder or space seals it for good, not just once: every file
in it now, and every file that lands in it later. An upload, an import, an SFTP
@@ -340,7 +345,10 @@ master key, and only that sealed copy is stored. Each file gets a random key of
its own, sealed under the master key in the file's header together with its
id, and its bytes are AES-256-GCM in 64 KiB records, the last one marked as
last — so a file that is swapped, cut short or tampered with refuses to open.
Changing the password re-seals the master key and rewrites no file.
Changing the password makes a new master key. Until every file is re-sealed,
the old one is kept sealed under the new one, so either kind of file opens and
an interrupted re-seal carries on where it stopped; re-sealing a file wraps its
own key under the new master key and copies its records as they are.
A sealed file is served with `Cache-Control: no-store`, so the browser keeps
no copy of what it showed once the vault shuts. A sealed image in a document