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Fix grammar: use 'the following kind of attacks'

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@@ -19,17 +19,14 @@ The purpose of this component is to deal with Merkle trees
except that certain arithmetic hashes constructed via the sponge construction
use the same encoding standards).
## Background / Rationale / Motivation
Merkle trees and Merkle tree roots are used for:
- content addressing (via the Merkle root hash)
- data authenticity (via a Merkle path from a block to the root)
- remote auditing (via Merkle proofs of pieces)
This specification provides a concrete implementation
that is safe from padding attacks, data encoding attacks, and layer abusing attacks.
## Background / Rationale / Motivation
Merkle trees can be implemented in quite a few different ways,
and if naively implemented, can be also attacked in several ways.
@@ -115,7 +112,7 @@ and an array of `T`-s of length `l` by `T[l]`.
## Tree Construction
The following kinds of attacks should be avoided:
We want to avoid the following kind of attacks:
- padding attacks
- layer abusing attacks