diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ Script to encrypt and decrypt files easily using openssl
     -e for encrypt
     -d for decrypt
 ## Additional info
-Uses des-ede3-cbc pbkdf2 with salt by default but can be configured in the $KEY variable.\
+Uses des-ede3-cbc pbkdf2 with salt by default but can be configured in the ~/.crypter/.keys file.\
 Files are converted using base64 encoding.
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diff --git a/keys b/keys
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-KEYS="-des-ede3-cbc -pbkdf2"