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Mention freeze attack in root migration paragraph
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versions. See step 1 of the client application workflow in Section 5 for
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more details.
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Note that an attacker, who controls the repository, can launch freeze
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attacks by withholding new root metadata. The attacker does not need to
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compromise root keys to do so. However, these freeze attacks are limited by
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the expiration time of the latest root metadata available to the client.
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To replace a delegated developer key, the role that delegated to that key
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just replaces that key with another in the signed metadata where the
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delegation is done.

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