Anti-replay
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Anti-replay is a sub protocol of IPsec
IPsec
Internet Protocol Security is a protocol suite for securing Internet Protocol communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a communication session...

that is part of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The main goal of anti-replay is to avoid hackers injecting or making changes in packets that travel from a source to a destination. Anti-replay protocol uses a unidirectional security association in order to establish a secure connection between two nodes in the network. Once a secure connection is established, anti-replay protocol will use a sequence number or a counter. When the source sends a message, it adds a sequence number to its packet starting at 0 and increments every time it sends another message. The other end, which is the destination, receives the message and keeps a history of the number and shifts it as the new number. If the next message has a lower number, the destination will drop the packet, and, if the number is larger than the previous one, it keeps and shifts it as the new number and so on.
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