Error generating a key

[Erick Castillo]

Hi, I am trying to add encryption support for the snmp package building under cygwin. I run the standard build process: configure, make, make install. I have openssl installed and believe that the encryption libraries were correctly built into the agent but I keep getting a key generation error when I try to send an encrypted transmission. Below is the configuration summary after running “configure”.   ** Configuration Summary:   Net-SNMP Version:             5.1.1 Building for:                 cygwin Network transport support:    Callback TCP UDP SNMPv3 Security Modules:      usm Agent MIB code:         mibII ucd_snmp snmpv3mibs notification target agent_mibs agentx agent_mibs utilitites host agentx smux examples/example SNMP Perl modules:            disabled Embedded perl support:        disabled Authentication support:       MD5 SHA1 Encryption support:           DES AES128 AES192 AES256 **   After installing I run the “net-snmp-config” script and create a user. If I try to encrypt a transmission with : >snmpget -v 3 -u myuser -l authPriv -x DES -X my_password localhost sysUpTime.0 >snmpget: Error generating a key (Ku) from the supplied privacy pass phrase.   The passphrase I chose for testing was “lightyear”. The username was the same. Based on the Configuration summary, I’m assuming I’ve correctly built the package. Any idea why I would be getting the key generating error?   Note that without encrypting the transmission, everything works fine.   --Erick