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improve identity context #84

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An identity contains private unlock material for lockboxes that grant access to it. Export its public key and share it so someone else can add you to a lockbox access list. To save someone else's public key, use lockbox vault contact add.

An identity represents a pair of keys (public/private) that are used to lock and unlock a lockbox.

The public key of an identity is used to lock a lockbox and the private key is use to unlock a lockbox.

You can share the public key of an identity (but NEVER your private key) with a third party so they can give you access to a lockbox
they have created.

To share an identity use:

lockbox vault identity export [identity name]

This exports the public key of the named identity which you can share with a friend (via email is fine).

A friend can then add your public key to their vault via:

lockbox vault contact add [contact name] /path/to/your/public/key

The can then add access to their lockbox by:

lockbox access add [contact name]

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