[snowboarder63]

So it does indeed even guarantee that the server is acting in a trustworthy manner due to the public auditing scenario. We will shortly be making our audit logs publicly available to show that the verified crypto proof the client performs does indeed match the publicly available records. The academic works SEEMless (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/607) and Parakeet (https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/parakeet-practical...) jointly outline how this all works from a technical perspective.

While we do maintain the directory, we are held to an honest standard by our audit logs. Should any auditor find invalid records, they can publicly hold us accountable.