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8 min read By NT²
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Local-first only means ownership if you can leave with an encrypted snapshot the cloud never had to hold. .nt2backup is that snapshot: portable vault profile sections and sealed payloads in a file you control.
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Salt, Key DID public material, sync cursors, and onboarding prefs are not one fat SQL row. They live as named vault profile sections—so backup, sync, and unlock can each touch only what they need.
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A local vault is a real SQLite database on your device. When the product ships schema v60, launch-era vaults must upgrade in place—not force a wipe because the CREATE statement changed in the source tree.
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Unlock is not a best-effort decrypt of everything you own. NT² checks a small local verifier first. Wrong password fails closed: the vault stays locked, and the UI stays honest.
9 min read By NT²
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Self-sovereign identity is useful when you take the parts that fit a zero-knowledge vault—and refuse the parts that turn the product into a general DID wallet.
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A cloud can help deliver sealed packages without becoming the place where pending shares live as readable mail. Relay indexes ciphertext. Inbox stays on the device.
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Opening the same vault in two browser tabs is normal. Letting both tabs write the same on-device SQLite file is not. NT² Vault elects one Writer and keeps every other unlocked tab as a follower.
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Local search is not one query shape. Free-text wants a full-text index on titles and search text. Category, trash, archive, and similar filters want ordinary table predicates. The product switches strategy so the UI never has to ship the whole vault into memory to feel searchable.
8 min read By NT²
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A local vault can hold thousands of structured items without becoming a giant in-memory array. The durable store stays in SQLite. The UI holds only a paged window of lightweight list rows, rendered through a virtual list.
10 min read By NT²
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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.
9 min read By NT²
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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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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.
9 min read By NT²
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A salt is not a secret. Still, where it lives changes who can assemble a password-guessing system. NT² keeps the KDF salt and password verifier with the local vault, so unlocking begins and ends on the device.
6 min read By NT²
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In the era of massive cloud-first applications, we often overlook a powerful alternative: the Progressive Web App (PWA). Why maintain a heavy, expensive, and potentially vulnerable server infrastructure when the modern browser is capable of running a full-featured, secure, and high-performance application entirely on the user's device?
