Correct remote layout and privacy docs for hashed snapshot keys (closes #67)

The remote layout and threat model in three documents described plaintext
snapshot IDs as directory names and misattributed the observable backup
time to those IDs. In fact `RemoteSnapshotKey` names each metadata
directory (and the manifest `snapshot_id`) with a one-way double SHA-256
hash of the human ID, so hostname and snapshot name are not observable;
the backup time is, via the plaintext manifest timestamp, an accepted
design property (issue 81).

Document the derivation once in `docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md` with a worked
example; README, ARCHITECTURE and DATAMODEL now show the hashed layout and
link to it. Rewrite the privacy section to state what the unencrypted
manifest really exposes. Fix two code comments that claimed the public
bytes hide the timestamp. Docs and comments only; no behaviour change.

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@@ -366,11 +366,17 @@ bucket/
│ └── {full-hash} # Compressed+encrypted blob
└── metadata/
└── {snapshot-id}/
└── {remote-key}/
├── db.zst.age # Encrypted binary SQLite database
└── manifest.json.zst # Blob list (for pruning/verification)
```
The `{remote-key}` directory name is a one-way double SHA-256 hash of the human
snapshot ID, so the human ID (hostname, snapshot name, timestamp) is never
written to the store as a directory name. See
[docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md](docs/REPOSTRUCTURE.md#remote-key-derivation) for the
derivation and a worked example.
## Thread Safety
- `Packer`: Thread-safe via mutex. Multiple goroutines can call `AddChunk()`.