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Author: Dominik Meister <dominiksamuel.meister@students.bfh.ch>
AuthorDate: Mon Jun 8 18:06:55 2020 +0200

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+\section*{Glossary}
+\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Glossary}
+\textbf{recovery document}, a data structure which contains a set of policies 
and challenges. \\
+\textbf{policy}, a policy is a list of challenges which need to be solved to 
recover the core secret.\\
+\textbf{challenge}, a challenge is a data structure which holds information 
about a user authentication for a escrow provider.\\
+\textbf{truth}, truth is a data structure which defines how a user 
authentication is performed, it also contains the key share which is released 
upon successful authentication..\\
+\textbf{escrow provider}, this is referred  to servers which operate Anastasis.
+\textbf{key share}, a key share is a random byte sequence which is combined 
with other key shares to create a policy key.\\
+\textbf{core secret}, the core secret is the data which the user wants to 
protect with Anastasis. \\
+\textbf{master key}, the master key is a randomly generated key which is used 
to encrypt the user's core secret. \\
+\textbf{policy key}, every policy holds a separate policy key which is built 
through the combination of the key shares. The policy key is used to encrypt 
the master key.\\
+\textbf{kdf\_id}, the kdf\_id is an Argon2 hash over the user's unforgettable 
password.\\

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