Re: [saag] How the cipher negotiation in snmpv3 will happen?

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Sun, 13 September 2015 14:23 UTC

Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:23:39 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 07:36:37PM +0530, Sarat G wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working on snmpv3. In the RFC and internet I haven't seen any
> documentation regarding how the encryption and hashing algorithms exchanged
> between the entities. I wonder will there be any cipher negotiation happens
> in SNMPv3 or both parties should agree upon a specific set of algorithms
> prior to the communication and use them?
> Please apologize and discard if this is not right platform to post this
> question.

The SNMPv3 security algorithms are pre-configured and not negotiated,
except when you use SNMP over TLS or SNMP over SSH.

/js

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