[rfc-dist] RFC 7860 on HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols in User-Based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3

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        RFC 7860

        Title:      HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols in User-Based 
                    Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3 
        Author:     J. Merkle, Ed.,
                    M. Lochter
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       April 2016
        Mailbox:    johannes.merkle at secunet.com, 
                    manfred.lochter at bsi.bund.de
        Pages:      14
        Characters: 29329
        Obsoletes:  RFC 7630

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-opsawg-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp-new-05.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7860

        DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7860

This document specifies several authentication protocols based on the
SHA-2 hash functions for the User-based Security Model (USM) for
SNMPv3 defined in RFC 3414.  It obsoletes RFC 7630, in which the MIB
MODULE-IDENTITY value was incorrectly specified.

This document is a product of the Operations and Management Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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