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 11. Immediately **Tortilla** wakes up and sees the `kind:4455` that has just been published by **Cope**, decrypts the content using `ecdh(t, C)` and now **Tortilla** also knows the secret key `e`. **Tortilla** can now decrypt and encrypt the same things **Cope** could before.
+12. After ensuring it has its copy of `a` and it matches the `A` published in the `kind:10044`, **Tortilla** proceeds to delete its own `kind:4454` and the corresponding `kind:4455` received from relays.
 
 ### The protocol flow again, now in a colorful infographic