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 For configuration interface details see [RA Configuration interface design](#configuration-interface-design) which is partly reused for client configuration.
 
+## Acknowledgements
+
+This work was partly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the project Quoryptan through grant number **16KIS2033**.