This is how the password -> Ku algorithm works: it repeats the password
until it has 1 megabyte of data, then runs the hash algorithm over that
data. See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2574#page-78 .
Bill
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:07 AM, JiaZhaohan <stone8...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if it is a general problem. I didn't search out any related
> issues.
>
> I use "password" as my password of snmpd. I can get result from "snmpget
> -v3 -c private -u username -a MD5 -A password -l authPriv -x DES -X
> password localhost 1.3.6.1.4.1.x"
>
> However, I can user the multiple times of password to get the result too:
>
> "snmpget -v3 -c private -u username -a MD5 -A passwordpassword -l
> authPriv -x DES -X passwordpassword localhost 1.3.6.1.4.1.x".
> "snmpget -v3 -c private -u username -a MD5 -A passwordpasswordpassword -l
> authPriv -x DES -X passwordpasswordpassword localhost 1.3.6.1.4.1.x".
>
> Moreover, I tried to change my password to "abcdabcd" which is duplicated
> "abcd" strings. All the following snmpget whose password is the multiple
> times of "abcd" work:
> "snmpget -v3 -c private -u username -a MD5 -A abcdabcd -l authPriv -x
> DES -X abcdabcd localhost 1.3.6.1.4.1.x"
> "snmpget -v3 -c private -u username -a MD5 -A abcdabcdabcd -l authPriv
> -x DES -X abcdabcdabcd localhost 1.3.6.1.4.1.x"
> "snmpget -v3 -c private -u username -a MD5 -A abcdabcdabcdabcd -l
> authPriv -x DES -X abcdabcdabcdabcd localhost 1.3.6.1.4.1.x"
>
> I don't know if any one met the same problem before.
>
> Thanks
> Zhaohan
>
>
>
>
>
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