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authorRasmus Dahlberg <rasmus.dahlberg@kau.se>2021-10-12 17:43:03 +0200
committerRasmus Dahlberg <rasmus.dahlberg@kau.se>2021-10-12 17:43:03 +0200
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To be re-added at a later time somewhere else. It is not helpful for a reader that is trying to understand the basic design for the first time. Spotted by ln5.
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@@ -294,16 +294,6 @@ logs have trustworthy tree heads thanks to using a variant of witness cosigning.
A verifier cannot be tricked into accepting data whose checksum have not been
publicly logged unless the attacker controls more than a threshold of witnesses.
-In a less ideal world sigsum logging can facilitate detection of attacks if a
-verifier _fails open_ by enforcing the second and third criteria partially. For
-example, some verifier may not enforce these criteria at all, and so would
-accept data from a malicious data mirror without proofs of public logging.
-Someone in a similar area may be able to detect this and report the attack.
-
-Another example of partial enforcement would be if a verifier required logging
-in a known log without witnessing. Attacks against the signer's signing and
-release infrastructure would be detected if the log is not compromised.
-
#### 3.2.6 - Monitoring
An often overlooked step is that transparency logging falls short if no-one
keeps track of what appears in the public logs. Monitoring is necessarily