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This exposé deals with the conormal regularity for a class of mixed hyperbolic problems with a diffractive boundary. So assume that \(P\) is a strictly hyperbolic operator, \(X\) is a \(C^\infty\) manifold with the boundary \(\partial X\), \(X_-= \{x\in X: \varphi(x) <-T\}\) and \(\varphi\in C^\infty\) is a time function for \(P\). Consider the mixed problem: \[ Pu= f(x,u),\;f\in C^\infty,\;u|_{\partial X} =0,\;u|_{X_-} =u_0. \tag{1} \] The initial data is supposed to be conormal to the incident front \(F\). Let \(\nu(X_-,F)\) be the Lie algebra of \(C^\infty\) vector fields in \(X_-\) tangent to \(F\). Then the space of distributions of finite \(L_2\)-based conormal regularity with respect to \(F\) is denoted by \(I_kL^2 (X_-,F)\). This is the main result of this exposé: Let \(u\in L^\infty_{\text{loc}} (X)\) be the solution of (1) and \(u_0\in I_kL^2_{\text{loc}}(X_-)\). Then \(u\in J_kL^2_{\text{loc}}(X)\), where \(J_kL_{\text{loc}}^2\) is a pseudoconormal space for the manifold with boundary \(X\).