init: use protobuf for serialization of persistent properties

I probably should have done this from the start...  There's a shim to
convert my manually serialized format to protobuf, and since that has
not yet shipped, it'll be reverted in a short period of time.

Test: init unit tests
Test: upgrade from legacy and intermediate property formats successfully
Change-Id: Iad25f6c30d0b44d294230a53dd6876222d1c785b