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11161116 cycle, report the potential freeze attack. On the next update cycle, begin
11171117 at step 0 and version N of the root metadata file.
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1119- * ** 1.9** . ** If the timestamp and / or snapshot keys have been rotated, then
1120- delete the trusted timestamp and snapshot metadata files.** This is done in
1121- order to recover from fast-forward attacks after the repository has been
1122- compromised and recovered. A _ fast-forward attack_ happens when attackers
1123- arbitrarily increase the version numbers of: (1) the timestamp metadata, (2)
1124- the snapshot metadata, and / or (3) the targets, or a delegated targets,
1125- metadata file in the snapshot metadata. Please see [ the Mercury
1119+ * ** 1.9** . ** Fast-forward attack recovery** A _ fast-forward attack_ happens
1120+ when attackers arbitrarily increase the version numbers in any of the
1121+ timestamp, snapshot, targets, or delegated targets metadata. To recover from
1122+ fast-forward attacks after the repository has been compromised and recovered,
1123+ certain metadata files need to be deleted as specified in this section.
1124+ Please see [ the Mercury
11261125 paper] ( https://ssl.engineering.nyu.edu/papers/kuppusamy-mercury-usenix-2017.pdf )
11271126 for more details.
11281127
1128+ * ** 1.9.1** . ** Targets recovery** If a threshold of targets keys are removed
1129+ from the root metadata, delete the old top-level targets, snapshot, and
1130+ timestamp metadata files.
1131+
1132+ * ** 1.9.2** . ** Snapshot recovery** If a threshold of snapshot keys have
1133+ been removed in the new trusted root metadata compared to the previous
1134+ trusted root metadata, delete the old snapshot and timestamp metadata
1135+ files.
1136+
1137+ * ** 1.9.3** . ** Timestamp recovery** If a threshold of timestamp keys have
1138+ been removed from the new trusted root metadata compared to the previous
1139+ trusted root metadata, delete the old timestamp metadata file.
1140+
11291141 * ** 1.10** . ** Set whether consistent snapshots are used as per the trusted
11301142 root metadata file** (see Section 4.3).
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