Re: question on key localizaton

Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.snmpv3
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> =?ks c 5601-1987?B?s6rH9sDN?= writes:

ks> According to key localization algorithm ( specified in RFC2574
ks> section 2.6 ), authentication keys ( or privacy keys ) on every
ks> authoritative engines are all different for a single user.  Why is
ks> this necessary ?

If you steal a box and extract the key out of the box, you are not
able to talk to use this key to talk to other boxes. This is a
feature, not a bug.

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>
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