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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ This project aims to add support the [Exposure Notification (EN) protocol for tr
 * Upon infection upload keys to a public database
 * Retrieve keys of infections from database
   * computes rolling proximity identifiers 
-  * compares to stored contacts to check for exposure b
+  * compares to stored contacts to check for exposure
 
 Note: as we for now do not use the flash for key storage, this currently only works on nrf52480 or you can just store a very small number of keys. Moving the keys to flash is on the TODO list and will fix this.