Why Separation Matters
Threat analysis
Most security failures occur because the entire secret exists in a single form and a single location. Once a file or system is compromised, the real value is immediately exposed.
The Two-Part Security Model avoids this by separating:
Decoy Text — ordinary text with no value
Mapping File — a structured technical file that contains no sensitive data and is meaningless on its own
No single component is valuable or dangerous by itself. Value only emerges when both parts are combined in the correct context.
Single-point-of-failure comparison
In traditional systems:
One seed phrase, one password, one backup = one point of failure
A single leak results in total compromise
Data is directly usable
In the separation model:
Decoy Text has no value if exposed
The Mapping File remains meaningless without the corresponding Decoy Text
There is no single artifact that can be abused
Failure occurs only when two separate artifacts are deliberately combined
This model eliminates single points of failure not by hiding data, but by removing value from each component individually.
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