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+# A Framework for Securing Software Update Systems
+
+TUF (The Update Framework) helps developers secure their new or existing
+software update systems. Software update systems are vulnerable to many known
+attacks, including those that can result in clients being compromised or
+crashed.  TUF helps solve this problem by providing a flexible security
+framework that can be added to software updaters.
+
+# What Is a Software Update System?
+
+Generally, a software update system is an application (or part of an
+application) running on a client system that obtains and installs software.
+This can include updates to software that is already installed or even
+completely new software.
+
+Three major classes of software update systems are:
+
+* Application Updaters - which are used by applications use to update
+themselves. For example, Firefox updates itself through its own application
+updater.
+
+* Library Package Managers - such as those offered by many programming
+languages for installing additional libraries. These are systems such as
+Python's pip/easy_install + PyPI, Perl's CPAN, Ruby's Gems, and PHP's PEAR.
+
+* System Package Managers - used by operating systems to update and install all
+of the software on a client system. Debian's APT, Red Hat's YUM, and openSUSE's
+YaST are examples of these.
+
+# Our Approach
+
+There are literally thousands of different software update systems in common
+use today. (In fact the average Windows user has about  two dozen different
+software updaters on their machine!)
+
+We are building a library that can be universally (and in most cases
+transparently) used to secure software update systems.
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-A Framework for Securing Software Update Systems
-------------------------------------------------
-
-TUF (The Update Framework) helps developers secure their new or existing
-software update systems. Software update systems are vulnerable to many known
-attacks, including those that can result in clients being compromised or crashed.
-TUF helps solve this problem by providing a flexible security framework that can
-be added to software updaters.
-
-
-What Is a Software Update System?
----------------------------------
-
-Generally, a software update system is an application (or part of an application)
-running on a client system that obtains and installs software. This can include
-updates to software that is already installed or even completely new software.
-
-Three major classes of software update systems are:
-
-Application Updaters - which are used by applications use to update themselves.
-For example, Firefox updates itself through its own application updater.
-
-Library Package Managers - such as those offered by many programming languages
-for installing additional libraries. These are systems such as Python's
-pip/easy_install + PyPI, Perl's CPAN, Ruby's Gems, and PHP's PEAR.
-
-System Package Managers - used by operating systems to update and install all of
-the software on a client system. Debian's APT, Red Hat's YUM, and openSUSE's
-YaST are examples of these.
-
-
-Our Approach
-------------
-
-There are literally thousands of different software update systems in common use
-today. (In fact the average Windows user has about  two dozen different software
-updaters on their machine!)
-
-We are building a library that can be universally (and in most cases transparently)
-used to secure software update systems.