README: explain the name dex

People are going to ask, might as well get it out there.
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dex is a federated identity management service.
It provides OpenID Connect (OIDC) to users, while it proxies to multiple remote identity providers (IdP) to drive actual authentication.
We named the project 'dex' beceause it is a central index of users that other pieces of software can authenticate against.
## Architecture