Glossary

Rekeying

An Algorand feature that lets an account delegate its signing authority to a different key, so that several different addresses can be controlled from a single wallet. The ledger records which key actually signs; checking an account's auth address reveals whether two seemingly separate accounts are really controlled by the same person.

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