Regarding athentication and encryption

Hello,

  My question is related to Authentication and encryption.

  I am using net-snmp version  :  5.2.1

  when i configured my net-snmp in the configure-summary file i get the
following
           *SNMP Versions Supported:    1 2c 3
           Net-SNMP Version:           5.2.1
           Building for:               solaris2
           Network transport support:  Callback Unix TCP UDP
           SNMPv3 Security Modules:    usm
           Agent MIB code:             mibII ucd_snmp snmpv3mibs
notification target agent_mibs agentx utilities wman wmanTable
wmanNotification
         SNMP Perl modules:          disabled
         Embedded perl support:    disabled
         Authentication support:     MD5 SHA1
         Encryption support:           DES AES*
This means that encryption and authentication is supported for my net-snmp (
I have openssl installed on my solaris Box).

So when the snmp manager sends a GET/SET request to the net-snmp, so will
there be authentication when the GET/SET request comes in and will the
packet which is sent in response to the GET/SET request be encrypted.

From my application code which is intializing the net-snmp by calling
functioncs like init_agent,init_vacm_vars,init_usmUser and init_snmp, do i
need to make any other function calls or will these take care of the
authentication and encryption.

My snmpd.conf file cotains the following entry :

  rwuser admin authPriv
  createUser "xxxxx" SHA "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" AES


With Best Regards
-anand