Why Strict "Zero Trust" Breaks Secret Management (And How We Built a Zero-Persistence Vault Instead)

This is a technical deep dive into the cryptography behind Ennote's enterprise architecture. You can read the original full-length post on our engineering blog . When evaluating an enterprise secrets manager, the fundamental security question isn't just how data is encrypted, but where and for how long the plaintext keys exist. Many platforms market themselves as strict "Zero Trust" (implying End-to-End Encryption where the server knows absolutely nothing). We don't make this claim. Why? Because