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authorRasmus Dahlberg <rasmus.dahlberg@kau.se>2021-10-07 18:39:59 +0200
committerRasmus Dahlberg <rasmus.dahlberg@kau.se>2021-10-07 18:39:59 +0200
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@@ -130,10 +130,9 @@ Transparency Log
[\[DigiCert\]](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/aKNbZuJzwfM).
The overall system is said to be secure if a monitor can discover every signed
-checksum that a verifier would accept, or alternatively, if log misbehavior can
-be detected. A log can misbehave by not presenting the same append-only Merkle
-tree to everyone. A log operator would only do that if it is likely to go
-unnoticed.
+checksum that a verifier would accept. A log can misbehave by not presenting
+the same append-only Merkle tree to everyone because it is attacker-controlled.
+However, a log operator would only do that if it is likely to go unnoticed.
For security we need a collision resistant hash function and an unforgeable
signature scheme. We also assume that at most a threshold of independent