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11 . ** Fast-forward attack recovery** A _ fast-forward attack_ happens
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when attackers arbitrarily increase the version numbers in any of the
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- timestamp, snapshot, targets, or delegated targets metadata. To recover from
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+ timestamp, snapshot, targets, or delegated targets metadata. The attacker goal
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+ is to cause clients to refuse to update the metadata later because the attacker's
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+ listed metadata version number (possibly MAX_INT) is greater than the new valid
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+ version. To recover from
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fast-forward attacks after the repository has been compromised and recovered,
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certain metadata files need to be deleted as specified in this section.
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Please see [ the Mercury
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paper] ( https://ssl.engineering.nyu.edu/papers/kuppusamy-mercury-usenix-2017.pdf )
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- for more details.
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+ for more details on fast-forward attacks .
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1. **Targets recovery** If a threshold of targets keys have been
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removed in the new trusted root metadata compared to the previous trusted
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