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commit c14655becafc49bcdd8c5480eee29dc62bca436f
parent 6ef88cd748cca675c1acfcd3813cc7e6836385e9
Author: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date:   Tue,  8 Oct 2019 16:45:05 +0200

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diff --git a/anastasis.rst b/anastasis.rst @@ -21,15 +21,14 @@ Anastasis ========= -**Anastasis** is a service that allows the user to securely deposit a **core - secret** with an open set of escrow providers and recover it if the secret is +Anastasis is a service that allows the user to securely deposit a +**core secret** with an open set of escrow providers and recover it if the secret is lost. The **core secret** itself is protected from the escrow providers by encrypting it with a **master key**. The main objective of Anastasis is to ensure that the user can reliably recover the **core secret**, while making -this difficult for everyone else. Furthermore, it is assumed that the user -is unable to reliably remember any secret with sufficiently high entropy, so -we cannot simply encrypt using some other key material in posession of the -user. +this difficult for everyone else. Furthermore, it is assumed that the user is +unable to reliably remember any secret with sufficiently high entropy, so we +cannot simply encrypt using some other key material in posession of the user. To uniquely identify users, an "unforgettable" **identifier** is used. This identifier should be difficult to guess for anybody but the user. However, the