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-Foreword
-========
+WARNING
+=======
 
 WARNING: At the moment, consider khepri as alpha quality software, it is not
-yet finished. Do not use it for real data yet.
+yet finished. Do not use it for real data!
 
 Khepri
 ======
 
-Khepri is a program that does backups right. It tries to fulfill the
-following design goals:
+Khepri is a program that does backups right. The design goals are:
 
- * Easy: Every obstacle that is between you and a working
-   backup solution, especially regarding complex or otherwise hard to use
-   software. Khepri should be easy to configure and use, so that in the
-   unlikely event of a catastrophic data loss, you are safe. Likewise,
+ * Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are
+   tempted to skip it.  Khepri should be easy to configure and use, so that in
+   the unlikely event of a data loss you can just restore it. Likewise,
    restoring data should not be complicated.
 
- * Fast: Backing up your data with khepri should only be
-   limited by your network or harddisk bandwidth. Ideally, you should backup
-   your files every day.  Nobody does backups if it is so slow it takes too
-   much time. Furthermore, restoring backups should only transfer data that
-   is needed for the files that are to be restored, so that restoring is
-   also fast.
+ * Fast: Backing up your data with khepri should only be limited by your
+   network or harddisk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day.
+   Nobody does backups if it takes too much time. Restoring backups should only
+   transfer data that is needed for the files that are to be restored, so that
+   this process is also fast.
 
- * Verifiable: Much more important than backup is restore, so khepri makes it
-   easy to verify regularly that all data can be restored.
+ * Verifiable: Much more important than backup is restore, so khepri enables
+   you to easily verify that all data can be restored.
 
- * Secure: Khepri uses cryptography to guarantee integrity and
-   confidentiality of your data. The location where the backups is assumed
-   to be a shared space where others (e.g. a system administrator) is able
-   to access your backups. Khepri is built to secure your data against such
-   attackers.
+ * Secure: Khepri uses cryptography to guarantee confidentiality and integrity
+   of your data. The location the backup data is stored is assumed not to be a
+   trusted environment (e.g. a shared space where others like system
+   administrators are able to access your backups). Khepri is built to secure
+   your data against such attackers.
 
 License
 =======