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+# Fioconfig
+
 This is a simple daemon designed to manage configuration data for an
-embedded device. Its based on a customized OTA Community Edition
+embedded device. It is based on a customized OTA Community Edition
 device-gateway endpoint, but the idea used could be generic to any
 system wanting to employ secure configuration management.
 
@@ -8,17 +10,17 @@ system wanting to employ secure configuration management.
 OTA devices communicate with a device-gateway using SSL client
 authentication. This means the public key of each device is known. By
 default, devices will have Elliptical Curve keys. Using a technique
-known as [ECIES](https://cryptopp.com/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Integrated_Encryption_Scheme)
-a the configuration values can be encrypted client-side and sent to
+known as [ECIES](https://cryptopp.com/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Integrated_Encryption_Scheme),
+the configuration values can be encrypted client-side and sent to
 the device-gateway so that it has no knowledge of a device's configuration
 values. The device can then pull down the encrypted configuration and
 use its private key to decrypt.
 
 The encrypted file is stored to a persistent location on disk. At boot,
-a fioconfig can extract this data to tmpfs (/var/run/secrets) so that
+fioconfig can extract this data to `tmpfs` (`/var/run/secrets`) so that
 they are only available at runtime.
 
+## How to Build
 
-## How to build
 `make bin/fioconfig-linux-amd64`
 `make test`