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 C++ Library for accessing PCSC-lite, OpenSSL, PKCS#11
 
 The Libraries for accessing smartcard tokens are written in ugly C,
-shifting pointers with no memory management. This library provides a
-simple and nice C++ wrapper around these libraries, so that
+moving around pointers with no memory management. This library
+provides a simple and nice C++ wrapper around these libraries, so that
 programmers can concentrate on functionality.
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