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Look at my screen, not my vault
Stories
A friend asks to check the account number. You want to help, but you do not want your unlocked vault in someone else's hands.
Stories
Product narratives about structured privacy, local-first vaulting, and encrypted handoffs.
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The account database must not become a password oracle
Tech
An account table can contain no plaintext vault items and still create a dangerous password-testing surface. We removed the columns that could turn a database copy into an offline guessing or recovery system.
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Timed reveal on a video call
Stories
The person on the call needs to confirm one field. Your screen is ready to show an entire document.
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One sync hub for one vault identity
Tech
A vault does not need to enter a shared plaintext mailbox to sync. Its public cryptographic identity can name a dedicated edge coordinator that notifies replicas and points them to encrypted frames it cannot open.
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Sent to me means ciphertext to you
Stories
The vault app lives at se.nt2.me: sent to me. The phrase is playful, but the product idea is not.
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No password reset, by design
Tech
“Contact support to reset your password” sounds reassuring. For an encrypted vault, it also reveals who ultimately controls access. NT² chooses a harder promise: recovery material stays with you, not our help desk.
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Something arrived in my Inbox
Stories
Most sharing stories focus on the sender. The recipient has a quieter problem: should I trust this file, and where should it go if I do?
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Blind replica sync on the edge
Tech
Sync does not have to turn a local vault into a cloud database. The edge can identify an account, store opaque replica frames, and deliver updates without learning what those updates contain.
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Sometimes a USB stick beats email
Stories
If the file is too sensitive for a chat thread, sending it through one more inbox is not automatically better.
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Why our vault SQLite database lives in OPFS, not IndexedDB
Tech
SQLite wants a file. A privacy vault wants durable relational storage that stays fast as its item count, indexes, and encrypted attachments grow. Putting a SQLite virtual file system on IndexedDB can bridge those worlds, but it makes the bridge part of every database operation. For NT² Vault, the browser vault file belongs in the Origin Private File System.