Key instead of password

Hi Everyone;

 

I am working on updating a program I have to work with snmpv3.  I have an
snmpv3 capable device that has to be set up by inputting an MD5 key directly
instead of creating one from a password.    As a simple test I set the MD5
key as 00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff, however I can't figure out how to
send this key from my program to the device.  No matter what I try I get an
Authentication Failure error.

 

Here is what I have tried:

Sending the key as a string

Converting the string into 16 actual bytes and sending that as the key.

 

Does anyone know what form the key is suppose to be in to work correctly?

 

Mathew Bielejeski

http://www.neon.com