Security - IPsec nonce

A cryptographic nonce is a randomly selected number that can be used only once in a cryptographic communication. The word nonce is a concatenation of "number once". A nonce typically used by an authentication protocol to ensure that old communications cannot be reused in replay attacks. They are also used as cryptographic hash functions.

IPSec uses nonces as an authentication method to authenticate a remote peer.

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce

https://community.cisco.com/t5/vpn/what-is-nonce-in-ipsec/m-p/1899615/highlight/true#M64843