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tweak verbiage for revocation doc
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We accomplish this by using modular arithmetic (where division is undefined),
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and by using massive numbers for the factors and accumulators.
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A <font color="blue">tails file</font> is a binary file that contains an
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A <font color="blue">tails file</font> is associated with an accumulator
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and its factors. It is a binary file that contains an
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array of randomly generated factors for an accumulator. Instead of small
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numbers like 2 and 3 and 7, these factors are massive numbers, far too
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big to display conveniently on a screen. Typically the quantity of these
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numeric factors in a tails file is large--hundreds of thousands to tens of
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millions.
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The tails file is not secret; it is published as plain text to the world
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A tails file is not secret; it is published as plain text to the world
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and freely downloadable by anyone. The contents of this file never change.
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Each potential or actual credential issued by a particular issuer is
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assigned an index to an accumulator factor in a tails file. However,
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only credentials that have not revoked contribute to the value of the
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only credentials that have not been revoked contribute to the value of the
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accumulator. We will see how this works, below.
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![tails file and accumulator](tails.png)

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