On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:09:43 +0100 Johannes wrote:
JM> I don't mean say that the issue is completely irrelevant, but just it
JM> is not as severe as your post seems to imply. And given the
JM> difficulties involved with a potential change, I doubt that it is worth.
JM> 
JM> That said, I suggest to include a warning into the security
JM> considerations of draft-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp pointing to this issue and
JM> recommending (generally) to use sufficiently strong passwords. RFC 3414
JM> already contains such a caveat but repeating it in the new
JM> specification might help to draw attention to it.

+1

Robert

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Senior Software Engineer @ Parsons

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