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Add details about ffwd attacker goals
Co-Authored-By: Justin Cappos <[email protected]> Co-Authored-By: Joshua Lock <[email protected]>
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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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