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A replay attack is an attack in which the adversary records a communication session and replays the entire session, or some portion of the session, at a later point in time. The replayed message(s) may be sent to the same verifier as the one that participated in the original session, or to a different verifier. The goal of the replay attack may be impersonation (Impersonation Attack), or it may be some other deception (e.g., a successful protocol exchange to transfer money from A’s account to B’s account may be replayed by B in an attempt to transfer more money than A had intended) [1, 2].
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Menezes A, van Oorschot P, Vanstone S (1997) Handbook of applied cryptography. CRC, Boca Raton, FL
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Adams, C. (2011). Replay Attack. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_92
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