Antw: net-snmp authentication algorithm

"Ulrich Windl" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 >>> Igor Sobinov <[email protected]> schrieb am 19.01.2016 um 08:40 in Nachricht
<[email protected]>:
> Hello,
> 
> I found that net-snmp v3 supports sha or md5 as authentication algorithm. I 
> know that sha-1 is cracked. What version of sha is used in net-snmp? Also, 

Hi!

What makes you think "SHA-1 is cracked"? I guess 99.9999% of all secrets are easier to "crack" than SHA-1 or MD5, meaning: SHA-256 doesn't make a poor secret any better.

> md5 is not reliable to attacks, is any ways to use stronger methods for 
> authentication?

AFAIK, the RFC only knows about MD5 and SHA-1. So anything else is pretty much non-standard anyway, I'm afarid.

Regards,
Ulrich

> 
> Bye, Igor





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