Network Working Group U. Blumenthal
Request for Comments: 3414 B. Wijnen
STD: 62 Lucent Technologies
Obsoletes: 2574 December 2002
Category: Standards Track
User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document describes the User-based Security Model (USM) for
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) version 3 for use in the
SNMP architecture. It defines the Elements of Procedure for
providing SNMP message level security. This document also includes a
Management Information Base (MIB) for remotely monitoring/managing
the configuration parameters for this Security Model. This document
obsoletes RFC 2574.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.......................................... 4
1.1. Threats............................................... 4
1.2. Goals and Constraints................................. 6
1.3. Security Services..................................... 6
1.4. Module Organization................................... 7
1.4.1. Timeliness Module..................................... 8
1.4.2. Authentication Protocol............................... 8
1.4.3. Privacy Protocol...................................... 8
1.5. Protection against Message Replay, Delay
and Redirection....................................... 9
1.5.1. Authoritative SNMP engine............................. 9
1.5.2. Mechanisms............................................ 9
1.6. Abstract Service Interfaces........................... 11
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1.6.1. User-based Security Model Primitives
for Authentication.................................... 11
1.6.2. User-based Security Model Primitives
for Privacy........................................... 12
2. Elements of the Model................................. 12
2.1. User-based Security Model Users....................... 12
2.2. Replay Protection..................................... 13
2.2.1. msgAuthoritativeEngineID.............................. 14
2.2.2. msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots and
msgAuthoritativeEngineTime............................ 14
2.2.3. Time Window........................................... 15
2.3. Time Synchronization.................................. 15
2.4. SNMP Messages Using this Security Model............... 16
2.5. Services provided by the User-based Security Model.... 17
2.5.1. Services for Generating an Outgoing SNMP Message...... 17
2.5.2. Services for Processing an Incoming SNMP Message...... 20
2.6. Key Localization Algorithm............................ 22
3. Elements of Procedure................................. 22
3.1. Generating an Outgoing SNMP Message................... 22
3.2. Processing an Incoming SNMP Message................... 26
4. Discovery............................................. 31
5. Definitions........................................... 32
6. HMAC-MD5-96 Authentication Protocol................... 51
6.1. Mechanisms............................................ 51
6.1.1. Digest Authentication Mechanism....................... 51
6.2. Elements of the Digest Authentication Protocol........ 52
6.2.1. Users................................................. 52
6.2.2. msgAuthoritativeEngineID.............................. 53
6.2.3. SNMP Messages Using this Authentication Protocol...... 53
6.2.4. Services provided by the HMAC-MD5-96
Authentication Module................................. 53
6.2.4.1. Services for Generating an Outgoing SNMP Message...... 53
6.2.4.2. Services for Processing an Incoming SNMP Message...... 54
6.3. Elements of Procedure................................. 55
6.3.1. Processing an Outgoing Message........................ 55
6.3.2. Processing an Incoming Message........................ 56
7. HMAC-SHA-96 Authentication Protocol................... 57
7.1. Mechanisms............................................ 57
7.1.1. Digest Authentication Mechanism....................... 57
7.2. Elements of the HMAC-SHA-96 Authentication Protocol... 58
7.2.1. Users................................................. 58
7.2.2. msgAuthoritativeEngineID.............................. 58
7.2.3. SNMP Messages Using this Authentication Protocol...... 59
7.2.4. Services provided by the HMAC-SHA-96
Authentication Module................................. 59
7.2.4.1. Services for Generating an Outgoing SNMP Message...... 59
7.2.4.2. Services for Processing an Incoming SNMP Message...... 60
7.3. Elements of Procedure................................. 61
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7.3.1. Processing an Outgoing Message........................ 61
7.3.2. Processing an Incoming Message........................ 61
8. CBC-DES Symmetric Encryption Protocol................. 63
8.1. Mechanisms............................................ 63
8.1.1. Symmetric Encryption Protocol......................... 63
8.1.1.1. DES key and Initialization Vector..................... 64
8.1.1.2. Data Encryption....................................... 65
8.1.1.3. Data Decryption....................................... 65
8.2. Elements of the DES Privacy Protocol.................. 65
8.2.1. Users................................................. 65
8.2.2. msgAuthoritativeEngineID.............................. 66
8.2.3. SNMP Messages Using this Privacy Protocol............. 66
8.2.4. Services provided by the DES Privacy Module........... 66
8.2.4.1. Services for Encrypting Outgoing Data................. 66
8.2.4.2. Services for Decrypting Incoming Data................. 67
8.3. Elements of Procedure................................. 68
8.3.1. Processing an Outgoing Message........................ 68
8.3.2. Processing an Incoming Message........................ 69
9. Intellectual Property................................. 69
10. Acknowledgements...................................... 70
11. Security Considerations............................... 71
11.1. Recommended Practices................................. 71
11.2. Defining Users........................................ 73
11.3. Conformance........................................... 74
11.4. Use of Reports........................................ 75
11.5. Access to the SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB.................. 75
12. References............................................ 75
A.1. SNMP engine Installation Parameters................... 78
A.2. Password to Key Algorithm............................. 80
A.2.1. Password to Key Sample Code for MD5................... 81
A.2.2. Password to Key Sample Code for SHA................... 82
A.3. Password to Key Sample Results........................ 83
A.3.1. Password to Key Sample Results using MD5.............. 83
A.3.2. Password to Key Sample Results using SHA.............. 83
A.4. Sample encoding of msgSecurityParameters.............. 83
A.5. Sample keyChange Results.............................. 84
A.5.1. Sample keyChange Results using MD5.................... 84
A.5.2. Sample keyChange Results using SHA.................... 85
B. Change Log............................................ 86
Editors' Addresses.................................... 87
Full Copyright Statement.............................. 88
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1. Introduction
The Architecture for describing Internet Management Frameworks
[RFC3411] describes that an SNMP engine is composed of:
1) a Dispatcher,
2) a Message Processing Subsystem,
3) a Security Subsystem, and
4) an Access Control Subsystem.
Applications make use of the services of these subsystems.
It is important to understand the SNMP architecture and the
terminology of the architecture to understand where the Security
Model described in this document fits into the architecture and
interacts with other subsystems within the architecture. The reader
is expected to have read and understood the description of the SNMP
architecture, as defined in [RFC3411].
This memo describes the User-based Security Model as it is used
within the SNMP Architecture. The main idea is that we use the
traditional concept of a user (identified by a userName) with which
to associate security information.
This memo describes the use of HMAC-MD5-96 and HMAC-SHA-96 as the
authentication protocols and the use of CBC-DES as the privacy
protocol. The User-based Security Model however allows for other
such protocols to be used instead of or concurrent with these
protocols. Therefore, the description of HMAC-MD5-96, HMAC-SHA-96
and CBC-DES are in separate sections to reflect their self-contained
nature and to indicate that they can be replaced or supplemented in
the future.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
1.1. Threats
Several of the classical threats to network protocols are applicable
to the network management problem and therefore would be applicable
to any SNMP Security Model. Other threats are not applicable to the
network management problem. This section discusses principal
threats, secondary threats, and threats which are of lesser
importance.
The principal threats against which this SNMP Security Model should
provide protection are:
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- Modification of Information The modification threat is the danger
that some unauthorized entity may alter in-transit SNMP messages
generated on behalf of an authorized principal in such a way as to
effect unauthorized management operations, including falsifying the
value of an object.
- Masquerade The masquerade threat is the danger that management
operations not authorized for some user may be attempted by
assuming the identity of another user that has the appropriate
authorizations.
Two secondary threats are also identified. The Security Model
defined in this memo provides limited protection against:
- Disclosure The disclosure threat is the danger of eavesdropping on
the exchanges between managed agents and a management station.
Protecting against this threat may be required as a matter of local
policy.
- Message Stream Modification The SNMP protocol is typically based
upon a connection-less transport service which may operate over any
sub-network service. The re-ordering, delay or replay of messages
can and does occur through the natural operation of many such sub-
network services. The message stream modification threat is the
danger that messages may be maliciously re-ordered, delayed or
replayed to an extent which is greater than can occur through the
natural operation of a sub-network service, in order to effect
unauthorized management operations.
There are at least two threats that an SNMP Security Model need not
protect against. The security protocols defined in this memo do not
provide protection against:
- Denial of Service This SNMP Security Model does not attempt to
address the broad range of attacks by which service on behalf of
authorized users is denied. Indeed, such denial-of-service attacks
are in many cases indistinguishable from the type of network
failures with which any viable network management protocol must
cope as a matter of course.
- Traffic Analysis This SNMP Security Model does not attempt to
address traffic analysis attacks. Indeed, many traffic patterns
are predictable - devices may be managed on a regular basis by a
relatively small number of management applications - and therefore
there is no significant advantage afforded by protecting against
traffic analysis.
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1.2. Goals and Constraints
Based on the foregoing account of threats in the SNMP network
management environment, the goals of this SNMP Security Model are as
follows.
1) Provide for verification that each received SNMP message has not
been modified during its transmission through the network.
2) Provide for verification of the identity of the user on whose
behalf a received SNMP message claims to have been generated.
3) Provide for detection of received SNMP messages, which request or
contain management information, whose time of generation was not
recent.
4) Provide, when necessary, that the contents of each received SNMP
message are protected from disclosure.
In addition to the principal goal of supporting secure network
management, the design of this SNMP Security Model is also influenced
by the following constraints:
1) When the requirements of effective management in times of network
stress are inconsistent with those of security, the design of USM
has given preference to the former.
2) Neither the security protocol nor its underlying security
mechanisms should depend upon the ready availability of other
network services (e.g., Network Time Protocol (NTP) or key
management protocols).
3) A security mechanism should entail no changes to the basic SNMP
network management philosophy.
1.3. Security Services
The security services necessary to support the goals of this SNMP
Security Model are as follows:
- Data Integrity is the provision of the property that data has not
been altered or destroyed in an unauthorized manner, nor have data
sequences been altered to an extent greater than can occur non-
maliciously.
- Data Origin Authentication is the provision of the property that
the claimed identity of the user on whose behalf received data was
originated is corroborated.
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- Data Confidentiality is the provision of the property that
information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized
individuals, entities, or processes.
- Message timeliness and limited replay protection is the provision
of the property that a message whose generation time is outside of
a specified time window is not accepted. Note that message
reordering is not dealt with and can occur in normal conditions
too.
For the protocols specified in this memo, it is not possible to
assure the specific originator of a received SNMP message; rather, it
is the user on whose behalf the message was originated that is
authenticated.
For these protocols, it not possible to obtain data integrity without
data origin authentication, nor is it possible to obtain data origin
authentication without data integrity. Further, there is no
provision for data confidentiality without both data integrity and
data origin authentication.
The security protocols used in this memo are considered acceptably
secure at the time of writing. However, the procedures allow for new
authentication and privacy methods to be specified at a future time
if the need arises.
1.4. Module Organization
The security protocols defined in this memo are split in three
different modules and each has its specific responsibilities such
that together they realize the goals and security services described
above:
- The authentication module MUST provide for:
- Data Integrity,
- Data Origin Authentication,
- The timeliness module MUST provide for:
- Protection against message delay or replay (to an extent greater
than can occur through normal operation).
- The privacy module MUST provide for
- Protection against disclosure of the message payload.
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The timeliness module is fixed for the User-based Security Model
while there is provision for multiple authentication and/or privacy
modules, each of which implements a specific authentication or
privacy protocol respectively.
1.4.1. Timeliness Module
Section 3 (Elements of Procedure) uses the timeliness values in an
SNMP message to do timeliness checking. The timeliness check is only
performed if authentication is applied to the message. Since the
complete message is checked for integrity, we can assume that the
timeliness values in a message that passes the authentication module
are trustworthy.
1.4.2. Authentication Protocol
Section 6 describes the HMAC-MD5-96 authentication protocol which is
the first authentication protocol that MUST be supported with the
User-based Security Model. Section 7 describes the HMAC-SHA-96
authentication protocol which is another authentication protocol that
SHOULD be supported with the User-based Security Model. In the
future additional or replacement authentication protocols may be
defined as new needs arise.
The User-based Security Model prescribes that, if authentication is
used, then the complete message is checked for integrity in the
authentication module.
For a message to be authenticated, it needs to pass authentication
check by the authentication module and the timeliness check which is
a fixed part of this User-based Security model.
1.4.3. Privacy Protocol
Section 8 describes the CBC-DES Symmetric Encryption Protocol which
is the first privacy protocol to be used with the User-based Security
Model. In the future additional or replacement privacy protocols may
be defined as new needs arise.
The User-based Security Model prescribes that the scopedPDU is
protected from disclosure when a message is sent with privacy.
The User-based Security Model also prescribes that a message needs to
be authenticated if privacy is in use.
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1.5. Protection against Message Replay, Delay and Redirection
1.5.1. Authoritative SNMP Engine
In order to protect against message replay, delay and redirection,
one of the SNMP engines involved in each communication is designated
to be the authoritative SNMP engine. When an SNMP message contains a
payload which expects a response (those messages that contain a
Confirmed Class PDU [RFC3411]), then the receiver of such messages is
authoritative. When an SNMP message contains a payload which does
not expect a response (those messages that contain an Unconfirmed
Class PDU [RFC3411]), then the sender of such a message is
authoritative.
1.5.2. Mechanisms
The following mechanisms are used:
1) To protect against the threat of message delay or replay (to an
extent greater than can occur through normal operation), a set of
timeliness indicators (for the authoritative SNMP engine) are
included in each message generated. An SNMP engine evaluates the
timeliness indicators to determine if a received message is
recent. An SNMP engine may evaluate the timeliness indicators to
ensure that a received message is at least as recent as the last
message it received from the same source. A non-authoritative
SNMP engine uses received authentic messages to advance its notion
of the timeliness indicators at the remote authoritative source.
An SNMP engine MUST also use a mechanism to match incoming
Responses to outstanding Requests and it MUST drop any Responses
that do not match an outstanding request. For example, a msgID
can be inserted in every message to cater for this functionality.
These mechanisms provide for the detection of authenticated
messages whose time of generation was not recent.
This protection against the threat of message delay or replay does
not imply nor provide any protection against unauthorized deletion
or suppression of messages. Also, an SNMP engine may not be able
to detect message reordering if all the messages involved are sent
within the Time Window interval. Other mechanisms defined
independently of the security protocol can also be used to detect
the re-ordering replay, deletion, or suppression of messages
containing Set operations (e.g., the MIB variable snmpSetSerialNo
[RFC3418]).
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2) Verification that a message sent to/from one authoritative SNMP
engine cannot be replayed to/as-if-from another authoritative SNMP
engine.
Included in each message is an identifier unique to the
authoritative SNMP engine associated with the sender or intended
recipient of the message.
A message containing an Unconfirmed Class PDU sent by an
authoritative SNMP engine to one non-authoritative SNMP engine can
potentially be replayed to another non-authoritative SNMP engine.
The latter non-authoritative SNMP engine might (if it knows about
the same userName with the same secrets at the authoritative SNMP
engine) as a result update its notion of timeliness indicators of
the authoritative SNMP engine, but that is not considered a
threat. In this case, A Report or Response message will be
discarded by the Message Processing Model, because there should
not be an outstanding Request message. A Trap will possibly be
accepted. Again, that is not considered a threat, because the
communication was authenticated and timely. It is as if the
authoritative SNMP engine was configured to start sending Traps to
the second SNMP engine, which theoretically can happen without the
knowledge of the second SNMP engine anyway. Anyway, the second
SNMP engine may not expect to receive this Trap, but is allowed to
see the management information contained in it.
3) Detection of messages which were not recently generated.
A set of time indicators are included in the message, indicating
the time of generation. Messages without recent time indicators
are not considered authentic. In addition, an SNMP engine MUST
drop any Responses that do not match an outstanding request. This
however is the responsibility of the Message Processing Model.
This memo allows the same user to be defined on multiple SNMP
engines. Each SNMP engine maintains a value, snmpEngineID, which
uniquely identifies the SNMP engine. This value is included in each
message sent to/from the SNMP engine that is authoritative (see
section 1.5.1). On receipt of a message, an authoritative SNMP
engine checks the value to ensure that it is the intended recipient,
and a non-authoritative SNMP engine uses the value to ensure that the
message is processed using the correct state information.
Each SNMP engine maintains two values, snmpEngineBoots and
snmpEngineTime, which taken together provide an indication of time at
that SNMP engine. Both of these values are included in an
authenticated message sent to/received from that SNMP engine. On
receipt, the values are checked to ensure that the indicated
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timeliness value is within a Time Window of the current time. The
Time Window represents an administrative upper bound on acceptable
delivery delay for protocol messages.
For an SNMP engine to generate a message which an authoritative SNMP
engine will accept as authentic, and to verify that a message
received from that authoritative SNMP engine is authentic, such an
SNMP engine must first achieve timeliness synchronization with the
authoritative SNMP engine. See section 2.3.
1.6. Abstract Service Interfaces
Abstract service interfaces have been defined to describe the
conceptual interfaces between the various subsystems within an SNMP
entity. Similarly a set of abstract service interfaces have been
defined within the User-based Security Model (USM) to describe the
conceptual interfaces between the generic USM services and the
self-contained authentication and privacy services.
These abstract service interfaces are defined by a set of primitives
that define the services provided and the abstract data elements that
must be passed when the services are invoked. This section lists the
primitives that have been defined for the User-based Security Model.
1.6.1. User-based Security Model Primitives for Authentication
The User-based Security Model provides the following internal
primitives to pass data back and forth between the Security Model
itself and the authentication service:
statusInformation =
authenticateOutgoingMsg(
IN authKey -- secret key for authentication
IN wholeMsg -- unauthenticated complete message
OUT authenticatedWholeMsg -- complete authenticated message
)
statusInformation =
authenticateIncomingMsg(
IN authKey -- secret key for authentication
IN authParameters -- as received on the wire
IN wholeMsg -- as received on the wire
OUT authenticatedWholeMsg -- complete authenticated message
)
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1.6.2. User-based Security Model Primitives for Privacy
The User-based Security Model provides the following internal
primitives to pass data back and forth between the Security Model
itself and the privacy service:
statusInformation =
encryptData(
IN encryptKey -- secret key for encryption
IN dataToEncrypt -- data to encrypt (scopedPDU)
OUT encryptedData -- encrypted data (encryptedPDU)
OUT privParameters -- filled in by service provider
)
statusInformation =
decryptData(
IN decryptKey -- secret key for decrypting
IN privParameters -- as received on the wire
IN encryptedData -- encrypted data (encryptedPDU)
OUT decryptedData -- decrypted data (scopedPDU)
)
2. Elements of the Model
This section contains definitions required to realize the security
model defined by this memo.
2.1. User-based Security Model Users
Management operations using this Security Model make use of a defined
set of user identities. For any user on whose behalf management
operations are authorized at a particular SNMP engine, that SNMP
engine must have knowledge of that user. An SNMP engine that wishes
to communicate with another SNMP engine must also have knowledge of a
user known to that engine, including knowledge of the applicable
attributes of that user.
A user and its attributes are defined as follows:
userName
A string representing the name of the user.
securityName
A human-readable string representing the user in a format that is
Security Model independent. There is a one-to-one relationship
between userName and securityName.
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authProtocol
An indication of whether messages sent on behalf of this user can
be authenticated, and if so, the type of authentication protocol
which is used. Two such protocols are defined in this memo:
- the HMAC-MD5-96 authentication protocol.
- the HMAC-SHA-96 authentication protocol.
authKey
If messages sent on behalf of this user can be authenticated, the
(private) authentication key for use with the authentication
protocol. Note that a user's authentication key will normally be
different at different authoritative SNMP engines. The authKey is
not accessible via SNMP. The length requirements of the authKey
are defined by the authProtocol in use.
authKeyChange and authOwnKeyChange
The only way to remotely update the authentication key. Does that
in a secure manner, so that the update can be completed without
the need to employ privacy protection.
privProtocol
An indication of whether messages sent on behalf of this user can
be protected from disclosure, and if so, the type of privacy
protocol which is used. One such protocol is defined in this
memo: the CBC-DES Symmetric Encryption Protocol.
privKey
If messages sent on behalf of this user can be en/decrypted, the
(private) privacy key for use with the privacy protocol. Note
that a user's privacy key will normally be different at different
authoritative SNMP engines. The privKey is not accessible via
SNMP. The length requirements of the privKey are defined by the
privProtocol in use.
privKeyChange and privOwnKeyChange
The only way to remotely update the encryption key. Does that in
a secure manner, so that the update can be completed without the
need to employ privacy protection.
2.2. Replay Protection
Each SNMP engine maintains three objects:
- snmpEngineID, which (at least within an administrative domain)
uniquely and unambiguously identifies an SNMP engine.
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- snmpEngineBoots, which is a count of the number of times the SNMP
engine has re-booted/re-initialized since snmpEngineID was last
configured; and,
- snmpEngineTime, which is the number of seconds since the
snmpEngineBoots counter was last incremented.
Each SNMP engine is always authoritative with respect to these
objects in its own SNMP entity. It is the responsibility of a non-
authoritative SNMP engine to synchronize with the authoritative SNMP
engine, as appropriate.
An authoritative SNMP engine is required to maintain the values of
its snmpEngineID and snmpEngineBoots in non-volatile storage.
2.2.1. msgAuthoritativeEngineID
The msgAuthoritativeEngineID value contained in an authenticated
message is used to defeat attacks in which messages from one SNMP
engine to another SNMP engine are replayed to a different SNMP
engine. It represents the snmpEngineID at the authoritative SNMP
engine involved in the exchange of the message.
When an authoritative SNMP engine is first installed, it sets its
local value of snmpEngineID according to a enterprise-specific
algorithm (see the definition of the Textual Convention for
SnmpEngineID in the SNMP Architecture document [RFC3411]).
2.2.2. msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots and msgAuthoritativeEngineTime
The msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots and msgAuthoritativeEngineTime values
contained in an authenticated message are used to defeat attacks in
which messages are replayed when they are no longer valid. They
represent the snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime values at the
authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the message.
Through use of snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime, there is no
requirement for an SNMP engine to have a non-volatile clock which
ticks (i.e., increases with the passage of time) even when the
SNMP engine is powered off. Rather, each time an SNMP engine
re-boots, it retrieves, increments, and then stores snmpEngineBoots
in non-volatile storage, and resets snmpEngineTime to zero.
When an SNMP engine is first installed, it sets its local values of
snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime to zero. If snmpEngineTime ever
reaches its maximum value (2147483647), then snmpEngineBoots is
incremented as if the SNMP engine has re-booted and snmpEngineTime is
reset to zero and starts incrementing again.
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Each time an authoritative SNMP engine re-boots, any SNMP engines
holding that authoritative SNMP engine's values of snmpEngineBoots
and snmpEngineTime need to re-synchronize prior to sending correctly
authenticated messages to that authoritative SNMP engine (see Section
2.3 for (re-)synchronization procedures). Note, however, that the
procedures do provide for a notification to be accepted as authentic
by a receiving SNMP engine, when sent by an authoritative SNMP engine
which has re-booted since the receiving SNMP engine last (re-
)synchronized.
If an authoritative SNMP engine is ever unable to determine its
latest snmpEngineBoots value, then it must set its snmpEngineBoots
value to 2147483647.
Whenever the local value of snmpEngineBoots has the value 2147483647
it latches at that value and an authenticated message always causes
an notInTimeWindow authentication failure.
In order to reset an SNMP engine whose snmpEngineBoots value has
reached the value 2147483647, manual intervention is required. The
engine must be physically visited and re-configured, either with a
new snmpEngineID value, or with new secret values for the
authentication and privacy protocols of all users known to that SNMP
engine. Note that even if an SNMP engine re-boots once a second that
it would still take approximately 68 years before the max value of
2147483647 would be reached.
2.2.3. Time Window
The Time Window is a value that specifies the window of time in which
a message generated on behalf of any user is valid. This memo
specifies that the same value of the Time Window, 150 seconds, is
used for all users.
2.3. Time Synchronization
Time synchronization, required by a non-authoritative SNMP engine
in order to proceed with authentic communications, has occurred
when the non-authoritative SNMP engine has obtained a local notion
of the authoritative SNMP engine's values of snmpEngineBoots and
snmpEngineTime from the authoritative SNMP engine. These values
must be (and remain) within the authoritative SNMP engine's Time
Window. So the local notion of the authoritative SNMP engine's
values must be kept loosely synchronized with the values stored
at the authoritative SNMP engine. In addition to keeping a local
copy of snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime from the authoritative
SNMP engine, a non-authoritative SNMP engine must also keep one
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local variable, latestReceivedEngineTime. This value records the
highest value of snmpEngineTime that was received by the
non-authoritative SNMP engine from the authoritative SNMP engine
and is used to eliminate the possibility of replaying messages
that would prevent the non-authoritative SNMP engine's notion of
the snmpEngineTime from advancing.
A non-authoritative SNMP engine must keep local notions of these
values (snmpEngineBoots, snmpEngineTime and latestReceivedEngineTime)
for each authoritative SNMP engine with which it wishes to
communicate. Since each authoritative SNMP engine is uniquely and
unambiguously identified by its value of snmpEngineID, the
non-authoritative SNMP engine may use this value as a key in order to
cache its local notions of these values.
Time synchronization occurs as part of the procedures of receiving an
SNMP message (Section 3.2, step 7b). As such, no explicit time
synchronization procedure is required by a non-authoritative SNMP
engine. Note, that whenever the local value of snmpEngineID is
changed (e.g., through discovery) or when secure communications are
first established with an authoritative SNMP engine, the local values
of snmpEngineBoots and latestReceivedEngineTime should be set to
zero. This will cause the time synchronization to occur when the
next authentic message is received.
2.4. SNMP Messages Using this Security Model
The syntax of an SNMP message using this Security Model adheres to
the message format defined in the version-specific Message Processing
Model document (for example [RFC3412]).
The field msgSecurityParameters in SNMPv3 messages has a data type of
OCTET STRING. Its value is the BER serialization of the following
ASN.1 sequence:
USMSecurityParametersSyntax DEFINITIONS IMPLICIT TAGS ::= BEGIN
UsmSecurityParameters ::=
SEQUENCE {
-- global User-based security parameters
msgAuthoritativeEngineID OCTET STRING,
msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots INTEGER (0..2147483647),
msgAuthoritativeEngineTime INTEGER (0..2147483647),
msgUserName OCTET STRING (SIZE(0..32)),
-- authentication protocol specific parameters
msgAuthenticationParameters OCTET STRING,
-- privacy protocol specific parameters
msgPrivacyParameters OCTET STRING
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}
END
The fields of this sequence are:
- The msgAuthoritativeEngineID specifies the snmpEngineID of the
authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the message.
- The msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots specifies the snmpEngineBoots value
at the authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the
message.
- The msgAuthoritativeEngineTime specifies the snmpEngineTime value
at the authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the
message.
- The msgUserName specifies the user (principal) on whose behalf the
message is being exchanged. Note that a zero-length userName will
not match any user, but it can be used for snmpEngineID discovery.
- The msgAuthenticationParameters are defined by the authentication
protocol in use for the message, as defined by the
usmUserAuthProtocol column in the user's entry in the usmUserTable.
- The msgPrivacyParameters are defined by the privacy protocol in use
for the message, as defined by the usmUserPrivProtocol column in
the user's entry in the usmUserTable).
See appendix A.4 for an example of the BER encoding of field
msgSecurityParameters.
2.5. Services provided by the User-based Security Model
This section describes the services provided by the User-based
Security Model with their inputs and outputs.
The services are described as primitives of an abstract service
interface and the inputs and outputs are described as abstract data
elements as they are passed in these abstract service primitives.
2.5.1. Services for Generating an Outgoing SNMP Message
When the Message Processing (MP) Subsystem invokes the User-based
Security module to secure an outgoing SNMP message, it must use the
appropriate service as provided by the Security module. These two
services are provided:
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1) A service to generate a Request message. The abstract service
primitive is:
statusInformation = -- success or errorIndication
generateRequestMsg(
IN messageProcessingModel -- typically, SNMP version
IN globalData -- message header, admin data
IN maxMessageSize -- of the sending SNMP entity
IN securityModel -- for the outgoing message
IN securityEngineID -- authoritative SNMP entity
IN securityName -- on behalf of this principal
IN securityLevel -- Level of Security requested
IN scopedPDU -- message (plaintext) payload
OUT securityParameters -- filled in by Security Module
OUT wholeMsg -- complete generated message
OUT wholeMsgLength -- length of generated message
)
2) A service to generate a Response message. The abstract service
primitive is:
statusInformation = -- success or errorIndication
generateResponseMsg(
IN messageProcessingModel -- typically, SNMP version
IN globalData -- message header, admin data
IN maxMessageSize -- of the sending SNMP entity
IN securityModel -- for the outgoing message
IN securityEngineID -- authoritative SNMP entity
IN securityName -- on behalf of this principal
IN securityLevel -- Level of Security requested
IN scopedPDU -- message (plaintext) payload
IN securityStateReference -- reference to security state
-- information from original
-- request
OUT securityParameters -- filled in by Security Module
OUT wholeMsg -- complete generated message
OUT wholeMsgLength -- length of generated message
)
The abstract data elements passed as parameters in the abstract
service primitives are as follows:
statusInformation
An indication of whether the encoding and securing of the message
was successful. If not it is an indication of the problem.
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messageProcessingModel
The SNMP version number for the message to be generated. This
data is not used by the User-based Security module.
globalData
The message header (i.e., its administrative information). This
data is not used by the User-based Security module.
maxMessageSize
The maximum message size as included in the message. This data is
not used by the User-based Security module.
securityParameters
These are the security parameters. They will be filled in by the
User-based Security module.
securityModel
The securityModel in use. Should be User-based Security Model.
This data is not used by the User-based Security module.
securityName
Together with the snmpEngineID it identifies a row in the
usmUserTablethat is to be used for securing the message. The
securityName has a format that is independent of the Security
Model. In case of a response this parameter is ignored and the
value from the cache is used.
securityLevel
The Level of Security from which the User-based Security module
determines if the message needs to be protected from disclosure
and if the message needs to be authenticated.
securityEngineID
The snmpEngineID of the authoritative SNMP engine to which a
dateRequest message is to be sent. In case of a response it is
implied to be the processing SNMP engine's snmpEngineID and so if
it is specified, then it is ignored.
scopedPDU
The message payload. The data is opaque as far as the User-based
Security Model is concerned.
securityStateReference
A handle/reference to cachedSecurityData to be used when securing
an outgoing Response message. This is the exact same
handle/reference as it was generated by the User-based Security
module when processing the incoming Request message to which this
is the Response message.
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wholeMsg
The fully encoded and secured message ready for sending on the
wire.
wholeMsgLength
The length of the encoded and secured message (wholeMsg).
Upon completion of the process, the User-based Security module
returns statusInformation. If the process was successful, the
completed message with privacy and authentication applied if such was
requested by the specified securityLevel is returned. If the process
was not successful, then an errorIndication is returned.
2.5.2. Services for Processing an Incoming SNMP Message
When the Message Processing (MP) Subsystem invokes the User-based
Security module to verify proper security of an incoming message, it
must use the service provided for an incoming message. The abstract
service primitive is:
statusInformation = -- errorIndication or success
-- error counter OID/value if error
processIncomingMsg(
IN messageProcessingModel -- typically, SNMP version
IN maxMessageSize -- of the sending SNMP entity
IN securityParameters -- for the received message
IN securityModel -- for the received message
IN securityLevel -- Level of Security
IN wholeMsg -- as received on the wire
IN wholeMsgLength -- length as received on the wire
OUT securityEngineID -- authoritative SNMP entity
OUT securityName -- identification of the principal
OUT scopedPDU, -- message (plaintext) payload
OUT maxSizeResponseScopedPDU -- maximum size of the Response PDU
OUT securityStateReference -- reference to security state
) -- information, needed for response
The abstract data elements passed as parameters in the abstract
service primitives are as follows:
statusInformation
An indication of whether the process was successful or not. If
not, then the statusInformation includes the OID and the value of
the error counter that was incremented.
messageProcessingModel
The SNMP version number as received in the message. This data is
not used by the User-based Security module.
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maxMessageSize
The maximum message size as included in the message. The User-bas
User-based Security module uses this value to calculate the
maxSizeResponseScopedPDU.
securityParameters
These are the security parameters as received in the message.
securityModel
The securityModel in use. Should be the User-based Security
Model. This data is not used by the User-based Security module.
securityLevel
The Level of Security from which the User-based Security module
determines if the message needs to be protected from disclosure
and if the message needs to be authenticated.
wholeMsg
The whole message as it was received.
wholeMsgLength
The length of the message as it was received (wholeMsg).
securityEngineID
The snmpEngineID that was extracted from the field
msgAuthoritativeEngineID and that was used to lookup the secrets
in the usmUserTable.
securityName
The security name representing the user on whose behalf the
message was received. The securityName has a format that is
independent of the Security Model.
scopedPDU
The message payload. The data is opaque as far as the User-based
Security Model is concerned.
maxSizeResponseScopedPDU
The maximum size of a scopedPDU to be included in a possible
Response message. The User-based Security module calculates this
size based on the msgMaxSize (as received in the message) and the
space required for the message header (including the
securityParameters) for such a Response message.
securityStateReference
A handle/reference to cachedSecurityData to be used when securing
an outgoing Response message. When the Message Processing
Subsystem calls the User-based Security module to generate a
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response to this incoming message it must pass this
handle/reference.
Upon completion of the process, the User-based Security module
returns statusInformation and, if the process was successful, the
additional data elements for further processing of the message. If
the process was not successful, then an errorIndication, possibly
with a OID and value pair of an error counter that was incremented.
2.6. Key Localization Algorithm.
A localized key is a secret key shared between a user U and one
authoritative SNMP engine E. Even though a user may have only one
password and therefore one key for the whole network, the actual
secrets shared between the user and each authoritative SNMP engine
will be different. This is achieved by key localization [Localized-
key].
First, if a user uses a password, then the user's password is
converted into a key Ku using one of the two algorithms described in
Appendices A.2.1 and A.2.2.
To convert key Ku into a localized key Kul of user U at the
authoritative SNMP engine E, one appends the snmpEngineID of the
authoritative SNMP engine to the key Ku and then appends the key Ku
to the result, thus enveloping the snmpEngineID within the two copies
of user's key Ku. Then one runs a secure hash function (which one
depends on the authentication protocol defined for this user U at
authoritative SNMP engine E; this document defines two authentication
protocols with their associated algorithms based on MD5 and SHA).
The output of the hash-function is the localized key Kul for user U
at the authoritative SNMP engine E.
3. Elements of Procedure
This section describes the security related procedures followed by an
SNMP engine when processing SNMP messages according to the User-based
Security Model.
3.1. Generating an Outgoing SNMP Message
This section describes the procedure followed by an SNMP engine
whenever it generates a message containing a management operation
(like a request, a response, a notification, or a report) on behalf
of a user, with a particular securityLevel.
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1) a) If any securityStateReference is passed (Response or Report
message), then information concerning the user is extracted
from the cachedSecurityData. The cachedSecurityData can now be
discarded. The securityEngineID is set to the local
snmpEngineID. The securityLevel is set to the value specified
by the calling module.
Otherwise,
b) based on the securityName, information concerning the user at
the destination snmpEngineID, specified by the
securityEngineID, is extracted from the Local Configuration
Datastore (LCD, usmUserTable). If information about the user
is absent from the LCD, then an error indication
(unknownSecurityName) is returned to the calling module.
2) If the securityLevel specifies that the message is to be protected
from disclosure, but the user does not support both an
authentication and a privacy protocol then the message cannot be
sent. An error indication (unsupportedSecurityLevel) is returned
to the calling module.
3) If the securityLevel specifies that the message is to be
authenticated, but the user does not support an authentication
protocol, then the message cannot be sent. An error indication
(unsupportedSecurityLevel) is returned to the calling module.
4) a) If the securityLevel specifies that the message is to be
protected from disclosure, then the octet sequence representing
the serialized scopedPDU is encrypted according to the user's
privacy protocol. To do so a call is made to the privacy
module that implements the user's privacy protocol according to
the abstract primitive:
statusInformation = -- success or failure
encryptData(
IN encryptKey -- user's localized privKey
IN dataToEncrypt -- serialized scopedPDU
OUT encryptedData -- serialized encryptedPDU
OUT privParameters -- serialized privacy parameters
)
statusInformation
indicates if the encryption process was successful or not.
encryptKey
the user's localized private privKey is the secret key that
can be used by the encryption algorithm.
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dataToEncrypt
the serialized scopedPDU is the data to be encrypted.
encryptedData
the encryptedPDU represents the encrypted scopedPDU, encoded
as an OCTET STRING.
privParameters
the privacy parameters, encoded as an OCTET STRING.
If the privacy module returns failure, then the message cannot
be sent and an error indication (encryptionError) is returned
to the calling module.
If the privacy module returns success, then the returned
privParameters are put into the msgPrivacyParameters field of
the securityParameters and the encryptedPDU serves as the
payload of the message being prepared.
Otherwise,
b) If the securityLevel specifies that the message is not to be be
protected from disclosure, then a zero-length OCTET STRING is
encoded into the msgPrivacyParameters field of the
securityParameters and the plaintext scopedPDU serves as the
payload of the message being prepared.
5) The securityEngineID is encoded as an OCTET STRING into the
msgAuthoritativeEngineID field of the securityParameters. Note
that an empty (zero length) securityEngineID is OK for a Request
message, because that will cause the remote (authoritative) SNMP
engine to return a Report PDU with the proper securityEngineID
included in the msgAuthoritativeEngineID in the securityParameters
of that returned Report PDU.
6) a) If the securityLevel specifies that the message is to be
authenticated, then the current values of snmpEngineBoots and
snmpEngineTime corresponding to the securityEngineID from the
LCD are used.
Otherwise,
b) If this is a Response or Report message, then the current value
of snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime corresponding to the
local snmpEngineID from the LCD are used.
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Otherwise,
c) If this is a Request message, then a zero value is used for
both snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime. This zero value gets
used if snmpEngineID is empty.
The values are encoded as INTEGER respectively into the
msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots and msgAuthoritativeEngineTime
fields of the securityParameters.
7) The userName is encoded as an OCTET STRING into the msgUserName
field of the securityParameters.
8) a) If the securityLevel specifies that the message is to be
authenticated, the message is authenticated according to the
user's authentication protocol. To do so a call is made to the
authentication module that implements the user's authentication
protocol according to the abstract service primitive:
statusInformation =
authenticateOutgoingMsg(
IN authKey -- the user's localized authKey
IN wholeMsg -- unauthenticated message
OUT authenticatedWholeMsg -- authenticated complete message
)
statusInformation
indicates if authentication was successful or not.
authKey
the user's localized private authKey is the secret key that
can be used by the authentication algorithm.
wholeMsg
the complete serialized message to be authenticated.
authenticatedWholeMsg
the same as the input given to the authenticateOutgoingMsg
service, but with msgAuthenticationParameters properly
filled in.
If the authentication module returns failure, then the message
cannot be sent and an error indication (authenticationFailure)
is returned to the calling module.
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If the authentication module returns success, then the
msgAuthenticationParameters field is put into the
securityParameters and the authenticatedWholeMsg represents the
serialization of the authenticated message being prepared.
Otherwise,
b) If the securityLevel specifies that the message is not to be
authenticated then a zero-length OCTET STRING is encoded into
the msgAuthenticationParameters field of the
securityParameters. The wholeMsg is now serialized and then
represents the unauthenticated message being prepared.
9) The completed message with its length is returned to the calling
module with the statusInformation set to success.
3.2. Processing an Incoming SNMP Message
This section describes the procedure followed by an SNMP engine
whenever it receives a message containing a management operation on
behalf of a user, with a particular securityLevel.
To simplify the elements of procedure, the release of state
information is not always explicitly specified. As a general rule,
if state information is available when a message gets discarded, the
state information should also be released. Also, an error indication
can return an OID and value for an incremented counter and optionally
a value for securityLevel, and values for contextEngineID or
contextName for the counter. In addition, the securityStateReference
data is returned if any such information is available at the point
where the error is detected.
1) If the received securityParameters is not the serialization
(according to the conventions of [RFC3417]) of an OCTET STRING
formatted according to the UsmSecurityParameters defined in
section 2.4, then the snmpInASNParseErrs counter [RFC3418] is
incremented, and an error indication (parseError) is returned to
the calling module. Note that we return without the OID and
value of the incremented counter, because in this case there is
not enough information to generate a Report PDU.
2) The values of the security parameter fields are extracted from
the securityParameters. The securityEngineID to be returned to
the caller is the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineID field.
The cachedSecurityData is prepared and a securityStateReference
is prepared to reference this data. Values to be cached are:
msgUserName
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3) If the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineID field in the
securityParameters is unknown then:
a) a non-authoritative SNMP engine that performs discovery may
optionally create a new entry in its Local Configuration
Datastore (LCD) and continue processing;
or
b) the usmStatsUnknownEngineIDs counter is incremented, and an
error indication (unknownEngineID) together with the OID and
value of the incremented counter is returned to the calling
module.
Note in the event that a zero-length, or other illegally sized
msgAuthoritativeEngineID is received, b) should be chosen to
facilitate engineID discovery. Otherwise the choice between a)
and b) is an implementation issue.
4) Information about the value of the msgUserName and
msgAuthoritativeEngineID fields is extracted from the Local
Configuration Datastore (LCD, usmUserTable). If no information
is available for the user, then the usmStatsUnknownUserNames
counter is incremented and an error indication
(unknownSecurityName) together with the OID and value of the
incremented counter is returned to the calling module.
5) If the information about the user indicates that it does not
support the securityLevel requested by the caller, then the
usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevels counter is incremented and an error
indication (unsupportedSecurityLevel) together with the OID and
value of the incremented counter is returned to the calling
module.
6) If the securityLevel specifies that the message is to be
authenticated, then the message is authenticated according to the
user's authentication protocol. To do so a call is made to the
authentication module that implements the user's authentication
protocol according to the abstract service primitive:
statusInformation = -- success or failure
authenticateIncomingMsg(
IN authKey -- the user's localized authKey
IN authParameters -- as received on the wire
IN wholeMsg -- as received on the wire
OUT authenticatedWholeMsg -- checked for authentication
)
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statusInformation
indicates if authentication was successful or not.
authKey
the user's localized private authKey is the secret key that
can be used by the authentication algorithm.
wholeMsg
the complete serialized message to be authenticated.
authenticatedWholeMsg
the same as the input given to the authenticateIncomingMsg
service, but after authentication has been checked.
If the authentication module returns failure, then the message
cannot be trusted, so the usmStatsWrongDigests counter is
incremented and an error indication (authenticationFailure)
together with the OID and value of the incremented counter is
returned to the calling module.
If the authentication module returns success, then the message is
authentic and can be trusted so processing continues.
7) If the securityLevel indicates an authenticated message, then the
local values of snmpEngineBoots, snmpEngineTime and
latestReceivedEngineTime corresponding to the value of the
msgAuthoritativeEngineID field are extracted from the Local
Configuration Datastore.
a) If the extracted value of msgAuthoritativeEngineID is the same
as the value of snmpEngineID of the processing SNMP engine
(meaning this is the authoritative SNMP engine), then if any
of the following conditions is true, then the message is
considered to be outside of the Time Window:
- the local value of snmpEngineBoots is 2147483647;
- the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field differs
from the local value of snmpEngineBoots; or,
- the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field differs
from the local notion of snmpEngineTime by more than +/- 150
seconds.
If the message is considered to be outside of the Time Window
then the usmStatsNotInTimeWindows counter is incremented and
an error indication (notInTimeWindow) together with the OID,
the value of the incremented counter, and an indication that
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the error must be reported with a securityLevel of authNoPriv,
is returned to the calling module
b) If the extracted value of msgAuthoritativeEngineID is not the
same as the value snmpEngineID of the processing SNMP engine
(meaning this is not the authoritative SNMP engine), then:
1) if at least one of the following conditions is true:
- the extracted value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots
field is greater than the local notion of the value of
snmpEngineBoots; or,
- the extracted value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots
field is equal to the local notion of the value of
snmpEngineBoots, and the extracted value of
msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field is greater than the
value of latestReceivedEngineTime,
then the LCD entry corresponding to the extracted value of
the msgAuthoritativeEngineID field is updated, by setting:
- the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots to the
value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field,
- the local notion of the value of snmpEngineTime to the
value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field, and
- the latestReceivedEngineTime to the value of the value of
the msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field.
2) if any of the following conditions is true, then the
message is considered to be outside of the Time Window:
- the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots is
2147483647;
- the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field is
less than the local notion of the value of
snmpEngineBoots; or,
- the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field is
equal to the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots
and the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field is
more than 150 seconds less than the local notion of the
value of snmpEngineTime.
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If the message is considered to be outside of the Time
Window then an error indication (notInTimeWindow) is
returned to the calling module.
Note that this means that a too old (possibly replayed)
message has been detected and is deemed unauthentic.
Note that this procedure allows for the value of
msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots in the message to be greater
than the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots to
allow for received messages to be accepted as authentic
when received from an authoritative SNMP engine that has
re-booted since the receiving SNMP engine last
(re-)synchronized.
8) a) If the securityLevel indicates that the message was protected
from disclosure, then the OCTET STRING representing the
encryptedPDU is decrypted according to the user's privacy
protocol to obtain an unencrypted serialized scopedPDU value.
To do so a call is made to the privacy module that implements
the user's privacy protocol according to the abstract
primitive:
statusInformation = -- success or failure
decryptData(
IN decryptKey -- the user's localized privKey
IN privParameters -- as received on the wire
IN encryptedData -- encryptedPDU as received
OUT decryptedData -- serialized decrypted scopedPDU
)
statusInformation
indicates if the decryption process was successful or not.
decryptKey
the user's localized private privKey is the secret key that
can be used by the decryption algorithm.
privParameters
the msgPrivacyParameters, encoded as an OCTET STRING.
encryptedData
the encryptedPDU represents the encrypted scopedPDU,
encoded as an OCTET STRING.
decryptedData
the serialized scopedPDU if decryption is successful.
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If the privacy module returns failure, then the message can
not be processed, so the usmStatsDecryptionErrors counter is
incremented and an error indication (decryptionError) together
with the OID and value of the incremented counter is returned
to the calling module.
If the privacy module returns success, then the decrypted
scopedPDU is the message payload to be returned to the calling
module.
Otherwise,
b) The scopedPDU component is assumed to be in plain text and is
the message payload to be returned to the calling module.
9) The maxSizeResponseScopedPDU is calculated. This is the maximum
size allowed for a scopedPDU for a possible Response message.
Provision is made for a message header that allows the same
securityLevel as the received Request.
10) The securityName for the user is retrieved from the usmUserTable.
11) The security data is cached as cachedSecurityData, so that a
possible response to this message can and will use the same
authentication and privacy secrets. Information to be
saved/cached is as follows:
msgUserName,
usmUserAuthProtocol, usmUserAuthKey
usmUserPrivProtocol, usmUserPrivKey
12) The statusInformation is set to success and a return is made to
the calling module passing back the OUT parameters as specified
in the processIncomingMsg primitive.
4. Discovery
The User-based Security Model requires that a discovery process
obtains sufficient information about other SNMP engines in order to
communicate with them. Discovery requires an non-authoritative SNMP
engine to learn the authoritative SNMP engine's snmpEngineID value
before communication may proceed. This may be accomplished by
generating a Request message with a securityLevel of noAuthNoPriv, a
msgUserName of zero-length, a msgAuthoritativeEngineID value of zero
length, and the varBindList left empty. The response to this message
will be a Report message containing the snmpEngineID of the
authoritative SNMP engine as the value of the
msgAuthoritativeEngineID field within the msgSecurityParameters
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field. It contains a Report PDU with the usmStatsUnknownEngineIDs
counter in the varBindList.
If authenticated communication is required, then the discovery
process should also establish time synchronization with the
authoritative SNMP engine. This may be accomplished by sending an
authenticated Request message with the value of
msgAuthoritativeEngineID set to the newly learned snmpEngineID and
with the values of msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots and
msgAuthoritativeEngineTime set to zero. For an authenticated Request
message, a valid userName must be used in the msgUserName field. The
response to this authenticated message will be a Report message
containing the up to date values of the authoritative SNMP engine's
snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime as the value of the
msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots and msgAuthoritativeEngineTime fields
respectively. It also contains the usmStatsNotInTimeWindows counter
in the varBindList of the Report PDU. The time synchronization then
happens automatically as part of the procedures in section 3.2 step
7b. See also section 2.3.
5. Definitions
SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS
MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE,
OBJECT-IDENTITY,
snmpModules, Counter32 FROM SNMPv2-SMI
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION, TestAndIncr,
RowStatus, RowPointer,
StorageType, AutonomousType FROM SNMPv2-TC
MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP FROM SNMPv2-CONF
SnmpAdminString, SnmpEngineID,
snmpAuthProtocols, snmpPrivProtocols FROM SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB;
snmpUsmMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
LAST-UPDATED "200210160000Z" -- 16 Oct 2002, midnight
ORGANIZATION "SNMPv3 Working Group"
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Chair: Russ Mundy
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USA
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phone: +1 301-947-7107
Co-Chair: David Harrington
Enterasys Networks
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Phone: +1 603-337-2614
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Lucent Technologies
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Whippany, NJ 07981
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phone: +1-973-386-2163
Co-editor: Bert Wijnen
Lucent Technologies
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phone: +31-348-480-685
"
DESCRIPTION "The management information definitions for the
SNMP User-based Security Model.
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002). This
version of this MIB module is part of RFC 3414;
see the RFC itself for full legal notices.
"
-- Revision history
REVISION "200210160000Z" -- 16 Oct 2002, midnight
DESCRIPTION "Changes in this revision:
- Updated references and contact info.
- Clarification to usmUserCloneFrom DESCRIPTION
clause
- Fixed 'command responder' into 'command generator'
in last para of DESCRIPTION clause of
usmUserTable.
This revision published as RFC3414.
"
REVISION "199901200000Z" -- 20 Jan 1999, midnight
DESCRIPTION "Clarifications, published as RFC2574"
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REVISION "199711200000Z" -- 20 Nov 1997, midnight
DESCRIPTION "Initial version, published as RFC2274"
::= { snmpModules 15 }
-- Administrative assignments ****************************************
usmMIBObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { snmpUsmMIB 1 }
usmMIBConformance OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { snmpUsmMIB 2 }
-- Identification of Authentication and Privacy Protocols ************
usmNoAuthProtocol OBJECT-IDENTITY
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "No Authentication Protocol."
::= { snmpAuthProtocols 1 }
usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol OBJECT-IDENTITY
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The HMAC-MD5-96 Digest Authentication Protocol."
REFERENCE "- H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, R. Canetti HMAC:
Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication,
RFC2104, Feb 1997.
- Rivest, R., Message Digest Algorithm MD5, RFC1321.
"
::= { snmpAuthProtocols 2 }
usmHMACSHAAuthProtocol OBJECT-IDENTITY
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The HMAC-SHA-96 Digest Authentication Protocol."
REFERENCE "- H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, R. Canetti, HMAC:
Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication,
RFC2104, Feb 1997.
- Secure Hash Algorithm. NIST FIPS 180-1.
"
::= { snmpAuthProtocols 3 }
usmNoPrivProtocol OBJECT-IDENTITY
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "No Privacy Protocol."
::= { snmpPrivProtocols 1 }
usmDESPrivProtocol OBJECT-IDENTITY
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The CBC-DES Symmetric Encryption Protocol."
REFERENCE "- Data Encryption Standard, National Institute of
Standards and Technology. Federal Information
Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 46-1.
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Supersedes FIPS Publication 46,
(January, 1977; reaffirmed January, 1988).
- Data Encryption Algorithm, American National
Standards Institute. ANSI X3.92-1981,
(December, 1980).
- DES Modes of Operation, National Institute of
Standards and Technology. Federal Information
Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 81,
(December, 1980).
- Data Encryption Algorithm - Modes of Operation,
American National Standards Institute.
ANSI X3.106-1983, (May 1983).
"
::= { snmpPrivProtocols 2 }
-- Textual Conventions ***********************************************
KeyChange ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Every definition of an object with this syntax must identify
a protocol P, a secret key K, and a hash algorithm H
that produces output of L octets.
The object's value is a manager-generated, partially-random
value which, when modified, causes the value of the secret
key K, to be modified via a one-way function.
The value of an instance of this object is the concatenation
of two components: first a 'random' component and then a
'delta' component.
The lengths of the random and delta components
are given by the corresponding value of the protocol P;
if P requires K to be a fixed length, the length of both the
random and delta components is that fixed length; if P
allows the length of K to be variable up to a particular
maximum length, the length of the random component is that
maximum length and the length of the delta component is any
length less than or equal to that maximum length.
For example, usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol requires K to be a fixed
length of 16 octets and L - of 16 octets.
usmHMACSHAAuthProtocol requires K to be a fixed length of
20 octets and L - of 20 octets. Other protocols may define
other sizes, as deemed appropriate.
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When a requester wants to change the old key K to a new
key keyNew on a remote entity, the 'random' component is
obtained from either a true random generator, or from a
pseudorandom generator, and the 'delta' component is
computed as follows:
- a temporary variable is initialized to the existing value
of K;
- if the length of the keyNew is greater than L octets,
then:
- the random component is appended to the value of the
temporary variable, and the result is input to the
the hash algorithm H to produce a digest value, and
the temporary variable is set to this digest value;
- the value of the temporary variable is XOR-ed with
the first (next) L-octets (16 octets in case of MD5)
of the keyNew to produce the first (next) L-octets
(16 octets in case of MD5) of the 'delta' component.
- the above two steps are repeated until the unused
portion of the keyNew component is L octets or less,
- the random component is appended to the value of the
temporary variable, and the result is input to the
hash algorithm H to produce a digest value;
- this digest value, truncated if necessary to be the same
length as the unused portion of the keyNew, is XOR-ed
with the unused portion of the keyNew to produce the
(final portion of the) 'delta' component.
For example, using MD5 as the hash algorithm H:
iterations = (lenOfDelta - 1)/16; /* integer division */
temp = keyOld;
for (i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
temp = MD5 (temp || random);
delta[i*16 .. (i*16)+15] =
temp XOR keyNew[i*16 .. (i*16)+15];
}
temp = MD5 (temp || random);
delta[i*16 .. lenOfDelta-1] =
temp XOR keyNew[i*16 .. lenOfDelta-1];
The 'random' and 'delta' components are then concatenated as
described above, and the resulting octet string is sent to
the recipient as the new value of an instance of this object.
At the receiver side, when an instance of this object is set
to a new value, then a new value of K is computed as follows:
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- a temporary variable is initialized to the existing value
of K;
- if the length of the delta component is greater than L
octets, then:
- the random component is appended to the value of the
temporary variable, and the result is input to the
hash algorithm H to produce a digest value, and the
temporary variable is set to this digest value;
- the value of the temporary variable is XOR-ed with
the first (next) L-octets (16 octets in case of MD5)
of the delta component to produce the first (next)
L-octets (16 octets in case of MD5) of the new value
of K.
- the above two steps are repeated until the unused
portion of the delta component is L octets or less,
- the random component is appended to the value of the
temporary variable, and the result is input to the
hash algorithm H to produce a digest value;
- this digest value, truncated if necessary to be the same
length as the unused portion of the delta component, is
XOR-ed with the unused portion of the delta component to
produce the (final portion of the) new value of K.
For example, using MD5 as the hash algorithm H:
iterations = (lenOfDelta - 1)/16; /* integer division */
temp = keyOld;
for (i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
temp = MD5 (temp || random);
keyNew[i*16 .. (i*16)+15] =
temp XOR delta[i*16 .. (i*16)+15];
}
temp = MD5 (temp || random);
keyNew[i*16 .. lenOfDelta-1] =
temp XOR delta[i*16 .. lenOfDelta-1];
The value of an object with this syntax, whenever it is
retrieved by the management protocol, is always the zero
length string.
Note that the keyOld and keyNew are the localized keys.
Note that it is probably wise that when an SNMP entity sends
a SetRequest to change a key, that it keeps a copy of the old
key until it has confirmed that the key change actually
succeeded.
"
SYNTAX OCTET STRING
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-- Statistics for the User-based Security Model **********************
usmStats OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { usmMIBObjects 1 }
usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevels OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The total number of packets received by the SNMP
engine which were dropped because they requested a
securityLevel that was unknown to the SNMP engine
or otherwise unavailable.
"
::= { usmStats 1 }
usmStatsNotInTimeWindows OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The total number of packets received by the SNMP
engine which were dropped because they appeared
outside of the authoritative SNMP engine's window.
"
::= { usmStats 2 }
usmStatsUnknownUserNames OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The total number of packets received by the SNMP
engine which were dropped because they referenced a
user that was not known to the SNMP engine.
"
::= { usmStats 3 }
usmStatsUnknownEngineIDs OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The total number of packets received by the SNMP
engine which were dropped because they referenced an
snmpEngineID that was not known to the SNMP engine.
"
::= { usmStats 4 }
usmStatsWrongDigests OBJECT-TYPE
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SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The total number of packets received by the SNMP
engine which were dropped because they didn't
contain the expected digest value.
"
::= { usmStats 5 }
usmStatsDecryptionErrors OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The total number of packets received by the SNMP
engine which were dropped because they could not be
decrypted.
"
::= { usmStats 6 }
-- The usmUser Group ************************************************
usmUser OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { usmMIBObjects 2 }
usmUserSpinLock OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TestAndIncr
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "An advisory lock used to allow several cooperating
Command Generator Applications to coordinate their
use of facilities to alter secrets in the
usmUserTable.
"
::= { usmUser 1 }
-- The table of valid users for the User-based Security Model ********
usmUserTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF UsmUserEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The table of users configured in the SNMP engine's
Local Configuration Datastore (LCD).
To create a new user (i.e., to instantiate a new
conceptual row in this table), it is recommended to
follow this procedure:
1) GET(usmUserSpinLock.0) and save in sValue.
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2) SET(usmUserSpinLock.0=sValue,
usmUserCloneFrom=templateUser,
usmUserStatus=createAndWait)
You should use a template user to clone from
which has the proper auth/priv protocol defined.
If the new user is to use privacy:
3) generate the keyChange value based on the secret
privKey of the clone-from user and the secret key
to be used for the new user. Let us call this
pkcValue.
4) GET(usmUserSpinLock.0) and save in sValue.
5) SET(usmUserSpinLock.0=sValue,
usmUserPrivKeyChange=pkcValue
usmUserPublic=randomValue1)
6) GET(usmUserPulic) and check it has randomValue1.
If not, repeat steps 4-6.
If the new user will never use privacy:
7) SET(usmUserPrivProtocol=usmNoPrivProtocol)
If the new user is to use authentication:
8) generate the keyChange value based on the secret
authKey of the clone-from user and the secret key
to be used for the new user. Let us call this
akcValue.
9) GET(usmUserSpinLock.0) and save in sValue.
10) SET(usmUserSpinLock.0=sValue,
usmUserAuthKeyChange=akcValue
usmUserPublic=randomValue2)
11) GET(usmUserPulic) and check it has randomValue2.
If not, repeat steps 9-11.
If the new user will never use authentication:
12) SET(usmUserAuthProtocol=usmNoAuthProtocol)
Finally, activate the new user:
13) SET(usmUserStatus=active)
The new user should now be available and ready to be
used for SNMPv3 communication. Note however that access
to MIB data must be provided via configuration of the
SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB.
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The use of usmUserSpinlock is to avoid conflicts with
another SNMP command generator application which may
also be acting on the usmUserTable.
"
::= { usmUser 2 }
usmUserEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX UsmUserEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "A user configured in the SNMP engine's Local
Configuration Datastore (LCD) for the User-based
Security Model.
"
INDEX { usmUserEngineID,
usmUserName
}
::= { usmUserTable 1 }
UsmUserEntry ::= SEQUENCE
{
usmUserEngineID SnmpEngineID,
usmUserName SnmpAdminString,
usmUserSecurityName SnmpAdminString,
usmUserCloneFrom RowPointer,
usmUserAuthProtocol AutonomousType,
usmUserAuthKeyChange KeyChange,
usmUserOwnAuthKeyChange KeyChange,
usmUserPrivProtocol AutonomousType,
usmUserPrivKeyChange KeyChange,
usmUserOwnPrivKeyChange KeyChange,
usmUserPublic OCTET STRING,
usmUserStorageType StorageType,
usmUserStatus RowStatus
}
usmUserEngineID OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpEngineID
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "An SNMP engine's administratively-unique identifier.
In a simple agent, this value is always that agent's
own snmpEngineID value.
The value can also take the value of the snmpEngineID
of a remote SNMP engine with which this user can
communicate.
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"
::= { usmUserEntry 1 }
usmUserName OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString (SIZE(1..32))
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "A human readable string representing the name of
the user.
This is the (User-based Security) Model dependent
security ID.
"
::= { usmUserEntry 2 }
usmUserSecurityName OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "A human readable string representing the user in
Security Model independent format.
The default transformation of the User-based Security
Model dependent security ID to the securityName and
vice versa is the identity function so that the
securityName is the same as the userName.
"
::= { usmUserEntry 3 }
usmUserCloneFrom OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX RowPointer
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "A pointer to another conceptual row in this
usmUserTable. The user in this other conceptual
row is called the clone-from user.
When a new user is created (i.e., a new conceptual
row is instantiated in this table), the privacy and
authentication parameters of the new user must be
cloned from its clone-from user. These parameters are:
- authentication protocol (usmUserAuthProtocol)
- privacy protocol (usmUserPrivProtocol)
They will be copied regardless of what the current
value is.
Cloning also causes the initial values of the secret
authentication key (authKey) and the secret encryption
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key (privKey) of the new user to be set to the same
values as the corresponding secrets of the clone-from
user to allow the KeyChange process to occur as
required during user creation.
The first time an instance of this object is set by
a management operation (either at or after its
instantiation), the cloning process is invoked.
Subsequent writes are successful but invoke no
action to be taken by the receiver.
The cloning process fails with an 'inconsistentName'
error if the conceptual row representing the
clone-from user does not exist or is not in an active
state when the cloning process is invoked.
When this object is read, the ZeroDotZero OID
is returned.
"
::= { usmUserEntry 4 }
usmUserAuthProtocol OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX AutonomousType
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "An indication of whether messages sent on behalf of
this user to/from the SNMP engine identified by
usmUserEngineID, can be authenticated, and if so,
the type of authentication protocol which is used.
An instance of this object is created concurrently
with the creation of any other object instance for
the same user (i.e., as part of the processing of
the set operation which creates the first object
instance in the same conceptual row).
If an initial set operation (i.e. at row creation time)
tries to set a value for an unknown or unsupported
protocol, then a 'wrongValue' error must be returned.
The value will be overwritten/set when a set operation
is performed on the corresponding instance of
usmUserCloneFrom.
Once instantiated, the value of such an instance of
this object can only be changed via a set operation to
the value of the usmNoAuthProtocol.
If a set operation tries to change the value of an
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existing instance of this object to any value other
than usmNoAuthProtocol, then an 'inconsistentValue'
error must be returned.
If a set operation tries to set the value to the
usmNoAuthProtocol while the usmUserPrivProtocol value
in the same row is not equal to usmNoPrivProtocol,
then an 'inconsistentValue' error must be returned.
That means that an SNMP command generator application
must first ensure that the usmUserPrivProtocol is set
to the usmNoPrivProtocol value before it can set
the usmUserAuthProtocol value to usmNoAuthProtocol.
"
DEFVAL { usmNoAuthProtocol }
::= { usmUserEntry 5 }
usmUserAuthKeyChange OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX KeyChange -- typically (SIZE (0 | 32)) for HMACMD5
-- typically (SIZE (0 | 40)) for HMACSHA
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "An object, which when modified, causes the secret
authentication key used for messages sent on behalf
of this user to/from the SNMP engine identified by
usmUserEngineID, to be modified via a one-way
function.
The associated protocol is the usmUserAuthProtocol.
The associated secret key is the user's secret
authentication key (authKey). The associated hash
algorithm is the algorithm used by the user's
usmUserAuthProtocol.
When creating a new user, it is an 'inconsistentName'
error for a set operation to refer to this object
unless it is previously or concurrently initialized
through a set operation on the corresponding instance
of usmUserCloneFrom.
When the value of the corresponding usmUserAuthProtocol
is usmNoAuthProtocol, then a set is successful, but
effectively is a no-op.
When this object is read, the zero-length (empty)
string is returned.
The recommended way to do a key change is as follows:
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1) GET(usmUserSpinLock.0) and save in sValue.
2) generate the keyChange value based on the old
(existing) secret key and the new secret key,
let us call this kcValue.
If you do the key change on behalf of another user:
3) SET(usmUserSpinLock.0=sValue,
usmUserAuthKeyChange=kcValue
usmUserPublic=randomValue)
If you do the key change for yourself:
4) SET(usmUserSpinLock.0=sValue,
usmUserOwnAuthKeyChange=kcValue
usmUserPublic=randomValue)
If you get a response with error-status of noError,
then the SET succeeded and the new key is active.
If you do not get a response, then you can issue a
GET(usmUserPublic) and check if the value is equal
to the randomValue you did send in the SET. If so, then
the key change succeeded and the new key is active
(probably the response got lost). If not, then the SET
request probably never reached the target and so you
can start over with the procedure above.
"
DEFVAL { ''H } -- the empty string
::= { usmUserEntry 6 }
usmUserOwnAuthKeyChange OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX KeyChange -- typically (SIZE (0 | 32)) for HMACMD5
-- typically (SIZE (0 | 40)) for HMACSHA
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "Behaves exactly as usmUserAuthKeyChange, with one
notable difference: in order for the set operation
to succeed, the usmUserName of the operation
requester must match the usmUserName that
indexes the row which is targeted by this
operation.
In addition, the USM security model must be
used for this operation.
The idea here is that access to this column can be
public, since it will only allow a user to change
his own secret authentication key (authKey).
Note that this can only be done once the row is active.
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When a set is received and the usmUserName of the
requester is not the same as the umsUserName that
indexes the row which is targeted by this operation,
then a 'noAccess' error must be returned.
When a set is received and the security model in use
is not USM, then a 'noAccess' error must be returned.
"
DEFVAL { ''H } -- the empty string
::= { usmUserEntry 7 }
usmUserPrivProtocol OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX AutonomousType
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "An indication of whether messages sent on behalf of
this user to/from the SNMP engine identified by
usmUserEngineID, can be protected from disclosure,
and if so, the type of privacy protocol which is used.
An instance of this object is created concurrently
with the creation of any other object instance for
the same user (i.e., as part of the processing of
the set operation which creates the first object
instance in the same conceptual row).
If an initial set operation (i.e. at row creation time)
tries to set a value for an unknown or unsupported
protocol, then a 'wrongValue' error must be returned.
The value will be overwritten/set when a set operation
is performed on the corresponding instance of
usmUserCloneFrom.
Once instantiated, the value of such an instance of
this object can only be changed via a set operation to
the value of the usmNoPrivProtocol.
If a set operation tries to change the value of an
existing instance of this object to any value other
than usmNoPrivProtocol, then an 'inconsistentValue'
error must be returned.
Note that if any privacy protocol is used, then you
must also use an authentication protocol. In other
words, if usmUserPrivProtocol is set to anything else
than usmNoPrivProtocol, then the corresponding instance
of usmUserAuthProtocol cannot have a value of
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usmNoAuthProtocol. If it does, then an
'inconsistentValue' error must be returned.
"
DEFVAL { usmNoPrivProtocol }
::= { usmUserEntry 8 }
usmUserPrivKeyChange OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX KeyChange -- typically (SIZE (0 | 32)) for DES
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "An object, which when modified, causes the secret
encryption key used for messages sent on behalf
of this user to/from the SNMP engine identified by
usmUserEngineID, to be modified via a one-way
function.
The associated protocol is the usmUserPrivProtocol.
The associated secret key is the user's secret
privacy key (privKey). The associated hash
algorithm is the algorithm used by the user's
usmUserAuthProtocol.
When creating a new user, it is an 'inconsistentName'
error for a set operation to refer to this object
unless it is previously or concurrently initialized
through a set operation on the corresponding instance
of usmUserCloneFrom.
When the value of the corresponding usmUserPrivProtocol
is usmNoPrivProtocol, then a set is successful, but
effectively is a no-op.
When this object is read, the zero-length (empty)
string is returned.
See the description clause of usmUserAuthKeyChange for
a recommended procedure to do a key change.
"
DEFVAL { ''H } -- the empty string
::= { usmUserEntry 9 }
usmUserOwnPrivKeyChange OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX KeyChange -- typically (SIZE (0 | 32)) for DES
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "Behaves exactly as usmUserPrivKeyChange, with one
notable difference: in order for the Set operation
to succeed, the usmUserName of the operation
requester must match the usmUserName that indexes
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the row which is targeted by this operation.
In addition, the USM security model must be
used for this operation.
The idea here is that access to this column can be
public, since it will only allow a user to change
his own secret privacy key (privKey).
Note that this can only be done once the row is active.
When a set is received and the usmUserName of the
requester is not the same as the umsUserName that
indexes the row which is targeted by this operation,
then a 'noAccess' error must be returned.
When a set is received and the security model in use
is not USM, then a 'noAccess' error must be returned.
"
DEFVAL { ''H } -- the empty string
::= { usmUserEntry 10 }
usmUserPublic OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE(0..32))
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "A publicly-readable value which can be written as part
of the procedure for changing a user's secret
authentication and/or privacy key, and later read to
determine whether the change of the secret was
effected.
"
DEFVAL { ''H } -- the empty string
::= { usmUserEntry 11 }
usmUserStorageType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX StorageType
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The storage type for this conceptual row.
Conceptual rows having the value 'permanent' must
allow write-access at a minimum to:
- usmUserAuthKeyChange, usmUserOwnAuthKeyChange
and usmUserPublic for a user who employs
authentication, and
- usmUserPrivKeyChange, usmUserOwnPrivKeyChange
and usmUserPublic for a user who employs
privacy.
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Note that any user who employs authentication or
privacy must allow its secret(s) to be updated and
thus cannot be 'readOnly'.
If an initial set operation tries to set the value to
'readOnly' for a user who employs authentication or
privacy, then an 'inconsistentValue' error must be
returned. Note that if the value has been previously
set (implicit or explicit) to any value, then the rules
as defined in the StorageType Textual Convention apply.
It is an implementation issue to decide if a SET for
a readOnly or permanent row is accepted at all. In some
contexts this may make sense, in others it may not. If
a SET for a readOnly or permanent row is not accepted
at all, then a 'wrongValue' error must be returned.
"
DEFVAL { nonVolatile }
::= { usmUserEntry 12 }
usmUserStatus OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX RowStatus
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The status of this conceptual row.
Until instances of all corresponding columns are
appropriately configured, the value of the
corresponding instance of the usmUserStatus column
is 'notReady'.
In particular, a newly created row for a user who
employs authentication, cannot be made active until the
corresponding usmUserCloneFrom and usmUserAuthKeyChange
have been set.
Further, a newly created row for a user who also
employs privacy, cannot be made active until the
usmUserPrivKeyChange has been set.
The RowStatus TC [RFC2579] requires that this
DESCRIPTION clause states under which circumstances
other objects in this row can be modified:
The value of this object has no effect on whether
other objects in this conceptual row can be modified,
except for usmUserOwnAuthKeyChange and
usmUserOwnPrivKeyChange. For these 2 objects, the
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value of usmUserStatus MUST be active.
"
::= { usmUserEntry 13 }
-- Conformance Information *******************************************
usmMIBCompliances OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { usmMIBConformance 1 }
usmMIBGroups OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { usmMIBConformance 2 }
-- Compliance statements
usmMIBCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION "The compliance statement for SNMP engines which
implement the SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB.
