HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols in the User-based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3
RFC 7630
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(October 2015; Errata)
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Merkle, Ed.
Request for Comments: 7630 Secunet Security Networks
Category: Standards Track M. Lochter
ISSN: 2070-1721 BSI
October 2015
HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols
in the User-based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3
Abstract
This memo specifies new HMAC-SHA-2 authentication protocols for the
User-based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3 defined in RFC 3414.
Status of This Memo
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(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. The Internet-Standard Management Framework . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. The HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4.1. Deviations from the HMAC-SHA-96 Authentication Protocol . 4
4.2. Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2.1. Processing an Outgoing Message . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2.2. Processing an Incoming Message . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Key Localization and Key Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Structure of the MIB Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. Relationship to Other MIB Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.1. Relationship to SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB . . . . . . . . . 7
7.2. Relationship to SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.3. MIB Modules Required for IMPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9.1. Use of the HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols in USM . . 9
9.2. Cryptographic Strength of the Authentication Protocols . 9
9.3. Derivation of Keys from Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9.4. Access to the SNMP-USM-HMAC-SHA2-MIB . . . . . . . . . . 11
10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1. Introduction
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
for use with network management protocols. In particular, it defines
additional authentication protocols for the User-based Security Model
(USM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol version 3 (SNMPv3)
specified in RFC 3414 [RFC3414].
In RFC 3414, two different authentication protocols, HMAC-MD5-96 and
HMAC-SHA-96, are defined based on the hash functions MD5 and SHA-1,
respectively. This memo specifies new HMAC-SHA-2 authentication
protocols for USM using a Hashed Message Authentication Code (HMAC)
based on the SHA-2 family of hash functions [SHA] and truncated to
128 bits for SHA-224, to 192 bits for SHA-256, to 256 bits for
SHA-384, and to 384 bits for SHA-512. These protocols are
straightforward adaptations of the authentication protocols HMAC-
MD5-96 and HMAC-SHA-96 to the SHA-2-based HMAC.
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