diff --git a/srtcore/core.cpp b/srtcore/core.cpp
index 9de39c7c6..540416f8c 100644
--- a/srtcore/core.cpp
+++ b/srtcore/core.cpp
@@ -9850,7 +9850,7 @@ int srt::CUDT::handleSocketPacketReception(const vector<CUnit*>& incoming, bool&
             }
         }
 
-        int buffer_add_result = m_pRcvBuffer->insert(u);
+        const int buffer_add_result = m_pRcvBuffer->insert(u);
         if (buffer_add_result < 0)
         {
             // The insert() result is -1 if at the position evaluated from this packet's
@@ -9878,12 +9878,19 @@ int srt::CUDT::handleSocketPacketReception(const vector<CUnit*>& incoming, bool&
                     adding_successful = false;
                     IF_HEAVY_LOGGING(exc_type = "UNDECRYPTED");
 
-                    // Drop a packet from the receiver buffer.
-                    // Dropping depends on the configuration mode. If message mode is enabled, we have to drop the whole message.
-                    // Otherwise just drop the exact packet.
-                    const int iDropCnt = (m_config.bMessageAPI)
-                        ? m_pRcvBuffer->dropMessage(SRT_SEQNO_NONE, SRT_SEQNO_NONE, u->m_Packet.getMsgSeq(m_bPeerRexmitFlag))
-                        : m_pRcvBuffer->dropMessage(u->m_Packet.getSeqNo(), u->m_Packet.getSeqNo(), SRT_MSGNO_NONE);
+                    // If TSBPD is disabled, then SRT either operates in buffer mode, of in message API without a restriction
+                    // of a single message packet. In that case just dropping a packet is not enough.
+                    // In message mode the whole message has to be dropped.
+                    // However, when decryption fails the message number in the packet cannot be trusted.
+                    // The packet has to be removed from the RCV buffer based on that pkt sequence number,
+                    // and the sequence number itself must go into the RCV loss list.
+                    // See issue ##2626.
+                    SRT_ASSERT(m_bTsbPd);
+
+                    // Drop the packet from the receiver buffer.
+                    // The packet was added to the buffer based on the sequence number, therefore sequence number should be used to drop it from the buffer.
+                    // A drawback is that it would prevent a valid packet with the same sequence number, if it happens to arrive later, to end up in the buffer.
+                    const int iDropCnt = m_pRcvBuffer->dropMessage(u->m_Packet.getSeqNo(), u->m_Packet.getSeqNo(), SRT_MSGNO_NONE);
 
                     LOGC(qrlog.Warn, log << CONID() << "Decryption failed. Seqno %" << u->m_Packet.getSeqNo()
                         << ", msgno " << u->m_Packet.getMsgSeq(m_bPeerRexmitFlag) << ". Dropping " << iDropCnt << ".");
diff --git a/srtcore/srt.h b/srtcore/srt.h
index d5a5eb196..39a90ce71 100644
--- a/srtcore/srt.h
+++ b/srtcore/srt.h
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ enum SRT_KM_STATE
     SRT_KM_S_NOSECRET      = 3, // Stream encrypted and no secret to decrypt Keying Material
     SRT_KM_S_BADSECRET     = 4 // Stream encrypted and wrong secret is used, cannot decrypt Keying Material
 #ifdef ENABLE_AEAD_API_PREVIEW
-    ,SRT_KM_S_BADCRYPTOMODE = 5  // Stream encrypted but wrong ccryptographic mode is used, cannot decrypt. Since v1.6.0.
+    ,SRT_KM_S_BADCRYPTOMODE = 5  // Stream encrypted but wrong cryptographic mode is used, cannot decrypt. Since v1.6.0.
 #endif
 };