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docs: Update storage overview #240

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This patch updates the storage overview for secrets-app and trussed-auth.

This patch updates the storage overview for secrets-app and trussed-auth.

### secrets-app

secrets-app stores the user data on the external filesystem. It uses trussed-auth for one PIN with a derived key.
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Might be useful to explicitly tell it does not use permanent key store, and mention encryption types:

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secrets-app stores the user data on the external filesystem. It uses trussed-auth for one PIN with a derived key.
secrets-app stores the user data on the external filesystem. Keeps no data in the permanent Trussed key store. It uses trussed-auth for one PIN with a salt for the derived key.
User data are encrypted either with Hardware or PIN-based encryption key.

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Can we merge this, w/ or w/o the suggestion?

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