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Security is your thing. I think when it comes to protecting your user's data vs inconveniencing them, you should inconvenience them. This will make us trust you more vs creating a new database format almost 3 years ago which fixes some of the security bugs of the old one and expecting only the experts to figure it out. Please make it the default.

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If people end up with one set of devices synching an .agilekeychain and on another set of their devices synching an .opvault they may not notice until things have different far apart.

Preventing data loss is part of data security. So many of these decisions aren't so much a "security v convenience" decision but a "security v security" decision.

"I think when it comes to protecting your user's data vs inconveniencing them, you should inconvenience them."

I'd rather they protect their user's data. ;)

I poorly worded it :).

I'd rather be inconvenienced if I know my data is safer.

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