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create new section "General Procedure"

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Thus, less user interaction is needed for authenticating all keys involved in the secure communication while preserving the same security level.
</p>
</section1>
<section1 topic='General Procedure' anchor='general-procedure'>
<p>
This section explains the basic procedure of autmomatically authenticating or revoking a key by a trust message.
It does not specify the detailed behaviour which can be found in section <link url='#usecases'>Use Cases</link>.
Instead, this section should rather show the fundamental idea behind it.
</p>
<section2 topic='Authentication' anchor='general-procedure-authentication'>
<ol>
<li>
<p>
Device 1 manually authenticates the key of device 2.
Device 1 automatically sends an authentication message for device 2's key to devices whose keys it has already authenticated and an authentication message for the keys of those devices to device 2.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Device 2 manually authenticates the key of device 1.
Device 2 automatically sends an authentication message for device 1's key to devices whose keys it has already authenticated and an authentication message for the keys of those devices to device 1.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Device 1 automatically authenticates the keys of the authentication message from device 2.
Each device receiving an authentication message from device 1 automatically authenticates device 2's key, if device 1's key has already been authenticated by it.
Each device receiving an authentication message from device 2 automatically authenticates the corresponding keys, if device 2's key has been authenticated by it.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Device 2 automatically authenticates the keys of the authentication message from device 1.
Each device receiving an authentication message from device 2 automatically authenticates device 1's key, if device 2's key has already been authenticated by it.
Each device receiving an authentication message from device 1 automatically authenticates the corresponding keys, if device 1's key has been authenticated by it.
</p>
</li>
</ol>
</section2>
<section2 topic='Revocation' anchor='general-procedure-revocation'>
<p>
Device 1 manually revokes the trust in the key of device 2.
Device 1 automatically sends a revocation message for device 2's key to devices whose keys it has already authenticated.
Each device receiving a revocation message from device 1 automatically revokes the trust in device 2's key, if device 1's key has already been authenticated by it.
</p>
</section2>
</section1>
<section1 topic='Trust Message URI' anchor='trust-message-uri'>
<p>
A trust message contains an <cite>XMPP URI</cite> (see &xep0147;) defined by the following scheme: