I was thinking I understand what's going on but then I came to the image showing the diff and I don't understand at all how that diff can unredact anything.
So with this technique, you can definitively say "Redacted-file-A is definitely a redacted version of Origin-file-A". Super useful for identifying forgeries in a stack of otherwise legitimate files.
Also good for for saying "the date on origin-file-B is 1993, and the file you've presented as evidence is provable as origin-file-b, so you definitely know of [whatever event] in 1993".
>... and therefore you can unredact them
from that readme is just not true then I guess?
I think the word should be "redact".