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@@ -277,12 +277,13 @@ Limitations
 Message Replays
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-A message can be decrypted successfully multiple times. This means that a MITM
-server can send multiple copies of a message and they will successfully decrypt.
+A message can be decrypted successfully multiple times. This means that an
+attacker can re-send a copy of an old message, and the recipient will treat it
+as a new message.
 
-To mitigate this it is recomendend that applications track the message indicies
-they have recieved and that they reject messages with indicies that they've
-already decrypted.
+To mitigate this it is recomendend that applications track the ratchet indicies
+they have recieved and that they reject messages with a ratchet index that
+they've already decrypted.
 
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