[IPsec] Replay Protection

Venkatesh Sriram <vnktshsriram@gmail.com> Tue, 02 February 2010 00:45 UTC

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Subject: [IPsec] Replay Protection
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Hi,

Most IETF documents state that replay protection is not provided with
manual keying. I wanted to understand the reason for the same. Is it
because with manual keying there is no way to negotiate the sequence
numbers and thus provision for replay protection is not supported?

Thanks,
Sriram