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docs: clarify Argon2id and BLAKE2b-512 KDF usage

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Document BLAKE2b-512 and Argon2id usage in the HTML/CHM user guide and Russian/Chinese translations. Clarify Argon2id's non-system scope, PBKDF2-HMAC system encryption behavior, PIM parameters, and regenerate the CHM files.
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<a href="Header%20Key%20Derivation.html">
<em>Header Key Derivation, Salt, and Iteration Count</em></a>), which can be one of the following:
HMAC-SHA-512, HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-BLAKE2S-256, HMAC-Whirlpool, HMAC-Streebog.</li>
<li><strong>Argon2id:</strong> Memory-hard key derivation function with internal BLAKE2b hash function.</li>
<li><strong>Argon2id:</strong> Memory-hard key derivation function for non-system volumes, with internal <a href="BLAKE2b-512.html">BLAKE2b-512</a> hash function.</li>
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<p>If a PRF is explicitly specified by the user, it will be used directly without trying the other possibilities.</p>
<p>If a header key derivation algorithm (or, for PBKDF2-HMAC, a PRF hash) is explicitly specified by the user, it will be used directly without trying the other possibilities.</p>
<p>A password entered by the user (to which one or more keyfiles may have been applied &ndash; see the section
<a href="Keyfiles%20in%20VeraCrypt.html">
<em>Keyfiles</em></a>), a PIM value (if specified) and the salt read in (1) are passed to the header key derivation function, which produces a sequence of values (see the section