How to enable SHA-1 option when building snmp?
"--enable-sha1" does not work.

--- On Tue, 1/13/09, Wes Hardaker <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: build with SHA-256 or SHA-1 option but disable MD5
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Received: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 12:46 PM
> >>>>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:13:48 -0800
> (PST), PoWah Wong <[email protected]> said:
> 
> PW> Is it possible to build with SHA-256 or SHA-1 option
> but disable
> PW> MD5?  How?  I use both version 5.0.9 on Redhat 7.2
> and 5.4.1 on
> PW> Fedora Core 6.
> 
> Right now, no it isn't.  I'd like to support this
> but haven't done the
> appropriate #ifdef's to make this happen.
> 
> That being said, if you don't create users with MD5 as
> the
> authentication method you won't actually suffer from
> the weaker
> security.  The only downside would be the slightly
> increased code size.
> 
> (note: there is no SHA256 at all...  SHA1 is the only
> option at this
> point (though most people consider SHA1 safe when used as
> part of the
> HMAC algorithm, which SNMPv3 uses))
> -- 
> Wes Hardaker
> Sparta, Inc.


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