On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 01:45:43PM +0200, Johannes Merkle wrote:
> Sam Hartman wrote on 26.08.2014 22:26:
> > I've reviewed both draft-hartman-snmp-sha2 and
> > draft-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp.
> > 
> 
> I suggest that others on the list speak up and declare their preference.
> 

I can't declare a clear preference since I have not time at the moment
to study whether there are any real technical differences. One thing I
note, however, is that draft-hartman-snmp-sha2 lacks a MIB module and
thus is incomplete. In contrast, draft-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp includes a
MIB module but it surely requires some editing work to make it look
nice. Note that a MIB module is needed to define the necessary object
identities for the new authentication protocols.

Since both documents claim to be identical to the authentication
protocols proposed in [RFC3414] except the authentication algorithms
used in generating digests (quoting almost literally
draft-hartman-snmp-sha2), I think short and incremental text is a
feature and not a bug.

/js

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