SNMPv3 Highlights

• Authentication

  • MD5 or SHA authentication passphrase hashes
  • Passphrase must be greater than 8 characters including spaces

• Privacy

  • Packet data may now be DES encrypted
  • Passphrase defaults to authentication passphrase
  • Allows for unique Privacy passphrase

• Inform Traps

  • Old style trap was "throw-n-pray" over UDP
  • v2 Inform trap is over TCP and requires a response
  • Traps may also have Authentication and Privacy passphrases

• Security Structures

  • User / Scope / ACL all may have independant AuthPriv structures

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