diff --git a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/24-the-secrets-vault.md b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/24-the-secrets-vault.md
index ff05586..badb34a 100644
--- a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/24-the-secrets-vault.md
+++ b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/24-the-secrets-vault.md
@@ -90,8 +90,10 @@ The vault's second job is to hold these, and it does so without holding a value:
   cannot open. A secret made before the key existed has no such copy and cannot get one, the
   plaintext being gone; the mesh says which those are rather than letting the export pass for
   complete.
-- **The export.** All operator-sealed copies, the key's public half and its fingerprint, and the
-  list of what is not recoverable, as one document. The vault declares that it *keeps* this, and
+- **The export.** All copies sealed to the mesh's current operator key, the key's public half and
+  its fingerprint, and two honest lists beside them: what is sealed to an earlier key the mesh has
+  since replaced, openable with that key alone, and what has no operator copy at all. As one
+  document. The vault declares that it *keeps* this, and
   the mesh writes it onto the vault's own disk as an ordinary declared file — ciphertext to the
   machine that holds it and to the bus it crossed. The same document can be written out by the
   operator to keep beside the key.