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Mention freeze attack in root migration paragraph
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lukpueh committed Nov 15, 2019
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versions. See step 1 of the client application workflow in Section 5 for
more details.

Note that an attacker, who controls the repository, can launch freeze
attacks by withholding new root metadata. The attacker does not need to
compromise root keys to do so. However, these freeze attacks are limited by
the expiration time of the latest root metadata available to the client.

To replace a delegated developer key, the role that delegated to that key
just replaces that key with another in the signed metadata where the
delegation is done.
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