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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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  1. 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.
  1. 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:
  1. 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.
  1. 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:
  1. 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.
  1. 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:
  1. 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.
  1. 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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  1. Data Confidentiality is the provision of the property that

information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized

   individuals, entities, or processes.
  1. 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:
  1. The authentication module MUST provide for:
  1. Data Integrity,
  1. Data Origin Authentication,
  1. The timeliness module MUST provide for:
  1. Protection against message delay or replay (to an extent greater

than can occur through normal operation).

  1. The privacy module MUST provide for
  1. 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:
  1. the HMAC-MD5-96 authentication protocol.
  2. 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:
  1. snmpEngineID, which (at least within an administrative domain)

uniquely and unambiguously identifies an SNMP engine.

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  1. snmpEngineBoots, which is a count of the number of times the SNMP

engine has re-booted/re-initialized since snmpEngineID was last

   configured; and,
  1. 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:
  1. The msgAuthoritativeEngineID specifies the snmpEngineID of the

authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the message.

  1. The msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots specifies the snmpEngineBoots value

at the authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the

   message.
  1. The msgAuthoritativeEngineTime specifies the snmpEngineTime value

at the authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the

   message.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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:
  1. the local value of snmpEngineBoots is 2147483647;
  1. the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field differs

from the local value of snmpEngineBoots; or,

  1. 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:
  1. the extracted value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots

field is greater than the local notion of the value of

             snmpEngineBoots; or,
  1. 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:
  1. the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots to the

value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field,

  1. the local notion of the value of snmpEngineTime to the

value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field, and

  1. 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:
  1. the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots is

2147483647;

  1. the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field is

less than the local notion of the value of

             snmpEngineBoots; or,
  1. 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"
  CONTACT-INFO "WG-email:   snmpv3@lists.tislabs.com
                Subscribe:  majordomo@lists.tislabs.com
                            In msg body:  subscribe snmpv3
                Chair:      Russ Mundy
                            Network Associates Laboratories
                postal:     15204 Omega Drive, Suite 300
                            Rockville, MD 20850-4601
                            USA
                email:      mundy@tislabs.com

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                phone:      +1 301-947-7107
                Co-Chair:   David Harrington
                            Enterasys Networks
                Postal:     35 Industrial Way
                            P. O. Box 5004
                            Rochester, New Hampshire 03866-5005
                            USA
                EMail:      dbh@enterasys.com
                Phone:      +1 603-337-2614
                Co-editor   Uri Blumenthal
                            Lucent Technologies
                postal:     67 Whippany Rd.
                            Whippany, NJ 07981
                            USA
                email:      uri@lucent.com
                phone:      +1-973-386-2163
                Co-editor:  Bert Wijnen
                            Lucent Technologies
                postal:     Schagen 33
                            3461 GL Linschoten
                            Netherlands
                email:      bwijnen@lucent.com
                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).
  1. Data Encryption Algorithm, American National

Standards Institute. ANSI X3.92-1981,

                  (December, 1980).
  1. DES Modes of Operation, National Institute of

Standards and Technology. Federal Information

                  Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 81,
                  (December, 1980).
  1. 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 35] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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: Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 36] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 - 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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 37] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 – 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:
  1. 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. " MODULE – this module MANDATORY-GROUPS { usmMIBBasicGroup } OBJECT usmUserAuthProtocol MIN-ACCESS read-only DESCRIPTION "Write access is not required." OBJECT usmUserPrivProtocol MIN-ACCESS read-only DESCRIPTION "Write access is not required." ::= { usmMIBCompliances 1 } – Units of compliance usmMIBBasicGroup OBJECT-GROUP OBJECTS { usmStatsUnsupportedSecLevels, usmStatsNotInTimeWindows, usmStatsUnknownUserNames, usmStatsUnknownEngineIDs, usmStatsWrongDigests, usmStatsDecryptionErrors, usmUserSpinLock, usmUserSecurityName, usmUserCloneFrom, usmUserAuthProtocol, usmUserAuthKeyChange, usmUserOwnAuthKeyChange, usmUserPrivProtocol, usmUserPrivKeyChange, usmUserOwnPrivKeyChange, Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 50] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 usmUserPublic, usmUserStorageType, usmUserStatus } STATUS current DESCRIPTION "A collection of objects providing for configuration of an SNMP engine which implements the SNMP User-based Security Model. " ::= { usmMIBGroups 1 } END 6. HMAC-MD5-96 Authentication Protocol This section describes the HMAC-MD5-96 authentication protocol. This authentication protocol is the first defined for the User-based Security Model. It uses MD5 hash-function which is described in [RFC1321], in HMAC mode described in [RFC2104], truncating the output to 96 bits. This protocol is identified by usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol. Over time, other authentication protocols may be defined either as a replacement of this protocol or in addition to this protocol. 6.1. Mechanisms - In support of data integrity, a message digest algorithm is required. A digest is calculated over an appropriate portion of an SNMP message and included as part of the message sent to the recipient. - In support of data origin authentication and data integrity, a secret value is prepended to SNMP message prior to computing the digest; the calculated digest is partially inserted into the SNMP message prior to transmission, and the prepended value is not transmitted. The secret value is shared by all SNMP engines authorized to originate messages on behalf of the appropriate user. 6.1.1. Digest Authentication Mechanism The Digest Authentication Mechanism defined in this memo provides for: - verification of the integrity of a received message, i.e., the message received is the message sent. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 51] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 The integrity of the message is protected by computing a digest over an appropriate portion of the message. The digest is computed by the originator of the message, transmitted with the message, and verified by the recipient of the message. - verification of the user on whose behalf the message was generated. A secret value known only to SNMP engines authorized to generate messages on behalf of a user is used in HMAC mode (see [RFC2104]). It also recommends the hash-function output used as Message Authentication Code, to be truncated. This protocol uses the MD5 [RFC1321] message digest algorithm. A 128-bit MD5 digest is calculated in a special (HMAC) way over the designated portion of an SNMP message and the first 96 bits of this digest is included as part of the message sent to the recipient. The size of the digest carried in a message is 12 octets. The size of the private authentication key (the secret) is 16 octets. For the details see section 6.3. 6.2. Elements of the Digest Authentication Protocol This section contains definitions required to realize the authentication module defined in this section of this memo. 6.2.1. Users Authentication using this authentication protocol makes use of a defined set of userNames. For any user on whose behalf a message must be authenticated 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. <authKey> A user's secret key to be used when calculating a digest. It MUST be 16 octets long for MD5. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 52] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 6.2.2. msgAuthoritativeEngineID The msgAuthoritativeEngineID value contained in an authenticated message specifies the authoritative SNMP engine for that particular message (see the definition of SnmpEngineID in the SNMP Architecture document [RFC3411]). The user's (private) authentication key is normally different at each authoritative SNMP engine and so the snmpEngineID is used to select the proper key for the authentication process. 6.2.3. SNMP Messages Using this Authentication Protocol Messages using this authentication protocol carry a msgAuthenticationParameters field as part of the msgSecurityParameters. For this protocol, the msgAuthenticationParameters field is the serialized OCTET STRING representing the first 12 octets of the HMAC-MD5-96 output done over the wholeMsg. The digest is calculated over the wholeMsg so if a message is authenticated, that also means that all the fields in the message are intact and have not been tampered with. 6.2.4. Services provided by the HMAC-MD5-96 Authentication Module This section describes the inputs and outputs that the HMAC-MD5-96 Authentication module expects and produces when the User-based Security module calls the HMAC-MD5-96 Authentication module for services. 6.2.4.1. Services for Generating an Outgoing SNMP Message The HMAC-MD5-96 authentication protocol assumes that the selection of the authKey is done by the caller and that the caller passes the secret key to be used. Upon completion the authentication module returns statusInformation and, if the message digest was correctly calculated, the wholeMsg with the digest inserted at the proper place. The abstract service primitive is: statusInformation = – success or failure authenticateOutgoingMsg( IN authKey – secret key for authentication IN wholeMsg – unauthenticated complete message OUT authenticatedWholeMsg – complete authenticated message ) Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 53] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 The abstract data elements are: statusInformation An indication of whether the authentication process was successful. If not it is an indication of the problem. authKey The secret key to be used by the authentication algorithm. The length of this key MUST be 16 octets. wholeMsg The message to be authenticated. authenticatedWholeMsg The authenticated message (including inserted digest) on output. Note, that authParameters field is filled by the authentication module and this module and this field should be already present in the wholeMsg before the Message Authentication Code (MAC) is generated. 6.2.4.2. Services for Processing an Incoming SNMP Message The HMAC-MD5-96 authentication protocol assumes that the selection of the authKey is done by the caller and that the caller passes the secret key to be used. Upon completion the authentication module returns statusInformation and, if the message digest was correctly calculated, the wholeMsg as it was processed. The abstract service primitive is: statusInformation = – success or failure 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 ) The abstract data elements are: statusInformation An indication of whether the authentication process was successful. If not it is an indication of the problem. authKey The secret key to be used by the authentication algorithm. The length of this key MUST be 16 octets. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 54] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 authParameters The authParameters from the incoming message. wholeMsg The message to be authenticated on input and the authenticated message on output. authenticatedWholeMsg The whole message after the authentication check is complete. 6.3. Elements of Procedure This section describes the procedures for the HMAC-MD5-96 authentication protocol. 6.3.1. Processing an Outgoing Message This section describes the procedure followed by an SNMP engine whenever it must authenticate an outgoing message using the usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol. 1) The msgAuthenticationParameters field is set to the serialization, according to the rules in [RFC3417], of an OCTET STRING containing 12 zero octets. 2) From the secret authKey, two keys K1 and K2 are derived: a) extend the authKey to 64 octets by appending 48 zero octets; save it as extendedAuthKey b) obtain IPAD by replicating the octet 0x36 64 times; c) obtain K1 by XORing extendedAuthKey with IPAD; d) obtain OPAD by replicating the octet 0x5C 64 times; e) obtain K2 by XORing extendedAuthKey with OPAD. 3) Prepend K1 to the wholeMsg and calculate MD5 digest over it according to [RFC1321]. 4) Prepend K2 to the result of the step 4 and calculate MD5 digest over it according to [RFC1321]. Take the first 12 octets of the final digest - this is Message Authentication Code (MAC). 5) Replace the msgAuthenticationParameters field with MAC obtained in the step 4. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 55] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 6) The authenticatedWholeMsg is then returned to the caller together with statusInformation indicating success. 6.3.2. Processing an Incoming Message This section describes the procedure followed by an SNMP engine whenever it must authenticate an incoming message using the usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol. 1) If the digest received in the msgAuthenticationParameters field is not 12 octets long, then an failure and an errorIndication (authenticationError) is returned to the calling module. 2) The MAC received in the msgAuthenticationParameters field is saved. 3) The digest in the msgAuthenticationParameters field is replaced by the 12 zero octets. 4) From the secret authKey, two keys K1 and K2 are derived: a) extend the authKey to 64 octets by appending 48 zero octets; save it as extendedAuthKey b) obtain IPAD by replicating the octet 0x36 64 times; c) obtain K1 by XORing extendedAuthKey with IPAD; d) obtain OPAD by replicating the octet 0x5C 64 times; e) obtain K2 by XORing extendedAuthKey with OPAD. 5) The MAC is calculated over the wholeMsg: a) prepend K1 to the wholeMsg and calculate the MD5 digest over it; b) prepend K2 to the result of step 5.a and calculate the MD5 digest over it; c) first 12 octets of the result of step 5.b is the MAC. The msgAuthenticationParameters field is replaced with the MAC value that was saved in step 2. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 56] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 6) Then the newly calculated MAC is compared with the MAC saved in step 2. If they do not match, then an failure and an errorIndication (authenticationFailure) is returned to the calling module. 7) The authenticatedWholeMsg and statusInformation indicating success are then returned to the caller. 7. HMAC-SHA-96 Authentication Protocol This section describes the HMAC-SHA-96 authentication protocol. This protocol uses the SHA hash-function which is described in [SHA-NIST], in HMAC mode described in [RFC2104], truncating the output to 96 bits. This protocol is identified by usmHMACSHAAuthProtocol. Over time, other authentication protocols may be defined either as a replacement of this protocol or in addition to this protocol. 7.1. Mechanisms - In support of data integrity, a message digest algorithm is required. A digest is calculated over an appropriate portion of an SNMP message and included as part of the message sent to the recipient. - In support of data origin authentication and data integrity, a secret value is prepended to the SNMP message prior to computing the digest; the calculated digest is then partially inserted into the message prior to transmission. The prepended secret is not transmitted. The secret value is shared by all SNMP engines authorized to originate messages on behalf of the appropriate user. 7.1.1. Digest Authentication Mechanism The Digest Authentication Mechanism defined in this memo provides for: - verification of the integrity of a received message, i.e., the message received is the message sent. The integrity of the message is protected by computing a digest over an appropriate portion of the message. The digest is computed by the originator of the message, transmitted with the message, and verified by the recipient of the message. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 57] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 - verification of the user on whose behalf the message was generated. A secret value known only to SNMP engines authorized to generate messages on behalf of a user is used in HMAC mode (see [RFC2104]). It also recommends the hash-function output used as Message Authentication Code, to be truncated. This mechanism uses the SHA [SHA-NIST] message digest algorithm. A 160-bit SHA digest is calculated in a special (HMAC) way over the designated portion of an SNMP message and the first 96 bits of this digest is included as part of the message sent to the recipient. The size of the digest carried in a message is 12 octets. The size of the private authentication key (the secret) is 20 octets. For the details see section 7.3. 7.2. Elements of the HMAC-SHA-96 Authentication Protocol This section contains definitions required to realize the authentication module defined in this section of this memo. 7.2.1. Users Authentication using this authentication protocol makes use of a defined set of userNames. For any user on whose behalf a message must be authenticated 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. <authKey> A user's secret key to be used when calculating a digest. It MUST be 20 octets long for SHA. 7.2.2. msgAuthoritativeEngineID The msgAuthoritativeEngineID value contained in an authenticated message specifies the authoritative SNMP engine for that particular message (see the definition of SnmpEngineID in the SNMP Architecture document [RFC3411]). The user's (private) authentication key is normally different at each authoritative SNMP engine and so the snmpEngineID is used to select the proper key for the authentication process. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 58] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 7.2.3. SNMP Messages Using this Authentication Protocol Messages using this authentication protocol carry a msgAuthenticationParameters field as part of the msgSecurityParameters. For this protocol, the msgAuthenticationParameters field is the serialized OCTET STRING representing the first 12 octets of HMAC-SHA-96 output done over the wholeMsg. The digest is calculated over the wholeMsg so if a message is authenticated, that also means that all the fields in the message are intact and have not been tampered with. 7.2.4. Services Provided by the HMAC-SHA-96 Authentication Module This section describes the inputs and outputs that the HMAC-SHA-96 Authentication module expects and produces when the User-based Security module calls the HMAC-SHA-96 Authentication module for services. 7.2.4.1. Services for Generating an Outgoing SNMP Message HMAC-SHA-96 authentication protocol assumes that the selection of the authKey is done by the caller and that the caller passes the secret key to be used. Upon completion the authentication module returns statusInformation and, if the message digest was correctly calculated, the wholeMsg with the digest inserted at the proper place. The abstract service primitive is: statusInformation = – success or failure authenticateOutgoingMsg( IN authKey – secret key for authentication IN wholeMsg – unauthenticated complete message OUT authenticatedWholeMsg – complete authenticated message ) The abstract data elements are: statusInformation An indication of whether the authentication process was successful. If not it is an indication of the problem. authKey The secret key to be used by the authentication algorithm. The length of this key MUST be 20 octets. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 59] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 wholeMsg The message to be authenticated. authenticatedWholeMsg The authenticated message (including inserted digest) on output. Note, that authParameters field is filled by the authentication module and this field should be already present in the wholeMsg before the Message Authentication Code (MAC) is generated. 7.2.4.2. Services for Processing an Incoming SNMP Message HMAC-SHA-96 authentication protocol assumes that the selection of the authKey is done by the caller and that the caller passes the secret key to be used. Upon completion the authentication module returns statusInformation and, if the message digest was correctly calculated, the wholeMsg as it was processed. The abstract service primitive is: statusInformation = – success or failure 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 ) The abstract data elements are: statusInformation An indication of whether the authentication process was successful. If not it is an indication of the problem. authKey The secret key to be used by the authentication algorithm. The length of this key MUST be 20 octets. authParameters The authParameters from the incoming message. wholeMsg The message to be authenticated on input and the authenticated message on output. authenticatedWholeMsg The whole message after the authentication check is complete. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 60] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 7.3. Elements of Procedure This section describes the procedures for the HMAC-SHA-96 authentication protocol. 7.3.1. Processing an Outgoing Message This section describes the procedure followed by an SNMP engine whenever it must authenticate an outgoing message using the usmHMACSHAAuthProtocol. 1) The msgAuthenticationParameters field is set to the serialization, according to the rules in [RFC3417], of an OCTET STRING containing 12 zero octets. 2) From the secret authKey, two keys K1 and K2 are derived: a) extend the authKey to 64 octets by appending 44 zero octets; save it as extendedAuthKey b) obtain IPAD by replicating the octet 0x36 64 times; c) obtain K1 by XORing extendedAuthKey with IPAD; d) obtain OPAD by replicating the octet 0x5C 64 times; e) obtain K2 by XORing extendedAuthKey with OPAD. 3) Prepend K1 to the wholeMsg and calculate the SHA digest over it according to [SHA-NIST]. 4) Prepend K2 to the result of the step 4 and calculate SHA digest over it according to [SHA-NIST]. Take the first 12 octets of the final digest - this is Message Authentication Code (MAC). 5) Replace the msgAuthenticationParameters field with MAC obtained in the step 5. 6) The authenticatedWholeMsg is then returned to the caller together with statusInformation indicating success. 7.3.2. Processing an Incoming Message This section describes the procedure followed by an SNMP engine whenever it must authenticate an incoming message using the usmHMACSHAAuthProtocol. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 61] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 1) If the digest received in the msgAuthenticationParameters field is not 12 octets long, then an failure and an errorIndication (authenticationError) is returned to the calling module. 2) The MAC received in the msgAuthenticationParameters field is saved. 3) The digest in the msgAuthenticationParameters field is replaced by the 12 zero octets. 4) From the secret authKey, two keys K1 and K2 are derived: a) extend the authKey to 64 octets by appending 44 zero octets; save it as extendedAuthKey b) obtain IPAD by replicating the octet 0x36 64 times; c) obtain K1 by XORing extendedAuthKey with IPAD; d) obtain OPAD by replicating the octet 0x5C 64 times; e) obtain K2 by XORing extendedAuthKey with OPAD. 5) The MAC is calculated over the wholeMsg: a) prepend K1 to the wholeMsg and calculate the SHA digest over it; b) prepend K2 to the result of step 5.a and calculate the SHA digest over it; c) first 12 octets of the result of step 5.b is the MAC. The msgAuthenticationParameters field is replaced with the MAC value that was saved in step 2. 6) The the newly calculated MAC is compared with the MAC saved in step 2. If they do not match, then a failure and an errorIndication (authenticationFailure) are returned to the calling module. 7) The authenticatedWholeMsg and statusInformation indicating success are then returned to the caller. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 62] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 8. CBC-DES Symmetric Encryption Protocol This section describes the CBC-DES Symmetric Encryption Protocol. This protocol is the first privacy protocol defined for the User-based Security Model. This protocol is identified by usmDESPrivProtocol. Over time, other privacy protocols may be defined either as a replacement of this protocol or in addition to this protocol. 8.1. Mechanisms - In support of data confidentiality, an encryption algorithm is required. An appropriate portion of the message is encrypted prior to being transmitted. The User-based Security Model specifies that the scopedPDU is the portion of the message that needs to be encrypted. - A secret value in combination with a timeliness value is used to create the en/decryption key and the initialization vector. The secret value is shared by all SNMP engines authorized to originate messages on behalf of the appropriate user. 8.1.1. Symmetric Encryption Protocol The Symmetric Encryption Protocol defined in this memo provides support for data confidentiality. The designated portion of an SNMP message is encrypted and included as part of the message sent to the recipient. Two organizations have published specifications defining the DES: the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [DES-NIST] and the American National Standards Institute [DES-ANSI]. There is a companion Modes of Operation specification for each definition ([DESO-NIST] and [DESO-ANSI], respectively). The NIST has published three additional documents that implementors may find useful. - There is a document with guidelines for implementing and using the DES, including functional specifications for the DES and its modes of operation [DESG-NIST]. - There is a specification of a validation test suite for the DES [DEST-NIST]. The suite is designed to test all aspects of the DES and is useful for pinpointing specific problems. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 63] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 - There is a specification of a maintenance test for the DES [DESM- NIST]. The test utilizes a minimal amount of data and processing to test all components of the DES. It provides a simple yes-or-no indication of correct operation and is useful to run as part of an initialization step, e.g., when a computer re-boots. 8.1.1.1. DES key and Initialization Vector The first 8 octets of the 16-octet secret (private privacy key) are used as a DES key. Since DES uses only 56 bits, the Least Significant Bit in each octet is disregarded. The Initialization Vector for encryption is obtained using the following procedure. The last 8 octets of the 16-octet secret (private privacy key) are used as pre-IV. In order to ensure that the IV for two different packets encrypted by the same key, are not the same (i.e., the IV does not repeat) we need to "salt" the pre-IV with something unique per packet. An 8-octet string is used as the "salt". The concatenation of the generating SNMP engine's 32-bit snmpEngineBoots and a local 32-bit integer, that the encryption engine maintains, is input to the "salt". The 32-bit integer is initialized to an arbitrary value at boot time. The 32-bit snmpEngineBoots is converted to the first 4 octets (Most Significant Byte first) of our "salt". The 32-bit integer is then converted to the last 4 octet (Most Significant Byte first) of our "salt". The resulting "salt" is then XOR-ed with the pre-IV to obtain the IV. The 8-octet "salt" is then put into the privParameters field encoded as an OCTET STRING. The "salt" integer is then modified. We recommend that it be incremented by one and wrap when it reaches the maximum value. How exactly the value of the "salt" (and thus of the IV) varies, is an implementation issue, as long as the measures are taken to avoid producing a duplicate IV. The "salt" must be placed in the privParameters field to enable the receiving entity to compute the correct IV and to decrypt the message. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 64] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 8.1.1.2. Data Encryption The data to be encrypted is treated as sequence of octets. Its length should be an integral multiple of 8 - and if it is not, the data is padded at the end as necessary. The actual pad value is irrelevant. The data is encrypted in Cipher Block Chaining mode. The plaintext is divided into 64-bit blocks. The plaintext for each block is XOR-ed with the ciphertext of the previous block, the result is encrypted and the output of the encryption is the ciphertext for the block. This procedure is repeated until there are no more plaintext blocks. For the very first block, the Initialization Vector is used instead of the ciphertext of the previous block. 8.1.1.3. Data Decryption Before decryption, the encrypted data length is verified. If the length of the OCTET STRING to be decrypted is not an integral multiple of 8 octets, the decryption process is halted and an appropriate exception noted. When decrypting, the padding is ignored. The first ciphertext block is decrypted, the decryption output is XOR-ed with the Initialization Vector, and the result is the first plaintext block. For each subsequent block, the ciphertext block is decrypted, the decryption output is XOR-ed with the previous ciphertext block and the result is the plaintext block. 8.2. Elements of the DES Privacy Protocol This section contains definitions required to realize the privacy module defined by this memo. 8.2.1. Users Data en/decryption using this Symmetric Encryption Protocol makes use of a defined set of userNames. For any user on whose behalf a message must be en/decrypted at a particular SNMP engine, that SNMP engine must have knowledge of that user. An SNMP engine that wishes Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 65] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 to communicate with another SNMP engine must also have knowledge of a user known to that SNMP engine, including knowledge of the applicable attributes of that user. A user and its attributes are defined as follows: <userName> An octet string representing the name of the user. <privKey> A user's secret key to be used as input for the DES key and IV. The length of this key MUST be 16 octets. 8.2.2. msgAuthoritativeEngineID The msgAuthoritativeEngineID value contained in an authenticated message specifies the authoritative SNMP engine for that particular message (see the definition of SnmpEngineID in the SNMP Architecture document [RFC3411]). The user's (private) privacy key is normally different at each authoritative SNMP engine and so the snmpEngineID is used to select the proper key for the en/decryption process. 8.2.3. SNMP Messages Using this Privacy Protocol Messages using this privacy protocol carry a msgPrivacyParameters field as part of the msgSecurityParameters. For this protocol, the msgPrivacyParameters field is the serialized OCTET STRING representing the "salt" that was used to create the IV. 8.2.4. Services Provided by the DES Privacy Module This section describes the inputs and outputs that the DES Privacy module expects and produces when the User-based Security module invokes the DES Privacy module for services. 8.2.4.1. Services for Encrypting Outgoing Data This DES privacy protocol assumes that the selection of the privKey is done by the caller and that the caller passes the secret key to be used. Upon completion the privacy module returns statusInformation and, if the encryption process was successful, the encryptedPDU and the msgPrivacyParameters encoded as an OCTET STRING. The abstract service primitive is: Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 66] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 statusInformation = – success of failure 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 ) The abstract data elements are: statusInformation An indication of the success or failure of the encryption process. In case of failure, it is an indication of the error. encryptKey The secret key to be used by the encryption algorithm. The length of this key MUST be 16 octets. dataToEncrypt The data that must be encrypted. encryptedData The encrypted data upon successful completion. privParameters The privParameters encoded as an OCTET STRING. 8.2.4.2. Services for Decrypting Incoming Data This DES privacy protocol assumes that the selection of the privKey is done by the caller and that the caller passes the secret key to be used. Upon completion the privacy module returns statusInformation and, if the decryption process was successful, the scopedPDU in plain text. The abstract service primitive is: statusInformation = decryptData( IN decryptKey – secret key for decryption IN privParameters – as received on the wire IN encryptedData – encrypted data (encryptedPDU) OUT decryptedData – decrypted data (scopedPDU) ) Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 67] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 The abstract data elements are: statusInformation An indication whether the data was successfully decrypted and if not an indication of the error. decryptKey The secret key to be used by the decryption algorithm. The length of this key MUST be 16 octets. privParameters The "salt" to be used to calculate the IV. encryptedData The data to be decrypted. decryptedData The decrypted data. 8.3. Elements of Procedure. This section describes the procedures for the DES privacy protocol. 8.3.1. Processing an Outgoing Message This section describes the procedure followed by an SNMP engine whenever it must encrypt part of an outgoing message using the usmDESPrivProtocol. 1) The secret cryptKey is used to construct the DES encryption key, the "salt" and the DES pre-IV (from which the IV is computed as described in section 8.1.1.1). 2) The privParameters field is set to the serialization according to the rules in [RFC3417] of an OCTET STRING representing the "salt" string. 3) The scopedPDU is encrypted (as described in section 8.1.1.2) and the encrypted data is serialized according to the rules in [RFC3417] as an OCTET STRING. 4) The serialized OCTET STRING representing the encrypted scopedPDU together with the privParameters and statusInformation indicating success is returned to the calling module. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 68] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 8.3.2. Processing an Incoming Message This section describes the procedure followed by an SNMP engine whenever it must decrypt part of an incoming message using the usmDESPrivProtocol. 1) If the privParameters field is not an 8-octet OCTET STRING, then an error indication (decryptionError) is returned to the calling module. 2) The "salt" is extracted from the privParameters field. 3) The secret cryptKey and the "salt" are then used to construct the DES decryption key and pre-IV (from which the IV is computed as described in section 8.1.1.1). 4) The encryptedPDU is then decrypted (as described in section 8.1.1.3). 5) If the encryptedPDU cannot be decrypted, then an error indication (decryptionError) is returned to the calling module. 6) The decrypted scopedPDU and statusInformation indicating success are returned to the calling module. 9. Intellectual Property The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual property or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; neither does it represent that it has made any effort to identify any such rights. Information on the IETF's procedures with respect to rights in standards-track and standards-related documentation can be found in BCP-11. Copies of claims of rights made available for publication and any assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of such proprietary rights by implementors or users of this specification can be obtained from the IETF Secretariat. The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary rights which may cover technology that may be required to practice this standard. Please address the information to the IETF Executive Director. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 69] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 10. Acknowledgements This document is the result of the efforts of the SNMPv3 Working Group. Some special thanks are in order to the following SNMPv3 WG members: Harald Tveit Alvestrand (Maxware) Dave Battle (SNMP Research, Inc.) Alan Beard (Disney Worldwide Services) Paul Berrevoets (SWI Systemware/Halcyon Inc.) Martin Bjorklund (Ericsson) Uri Blumenthal (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Jeff Case (SNMP Research, Inc.) John Curran (BBN) Mike Daniele (Compaq Computer Corporation)) T. Max Devlin (Eltrax Systems) John Flick (Hewlett Packard) Rob Frye (MCI) Wes Hardaker (U.C.Davis, Information Technology - D.C.A.S.) David Harrington (Cabletron Systems Inc.) Lauren Heintz (BMC Software, Inc.) N.C. Hien (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Michael Kirkham (InterWorking Labs, Inc.) Dave Levi (SNMP Research, Inc.) Louis A Mamakos (UUNET Technologies Inc.) Joe Marzot (Nortel Networks) Paul Meyer (Secure Computing Corporation) Keith McCloghrie (Cisco Systems) Bob Moore (IBM) Russ Mundy (TIS Labs at Network Associates) Bob Natale (ACE*COMM Corporation) Mike O'Dell (UUNET Technologies Inc.) Dave Perkins (DeskTalk) Peter Polkinghorne (Brunel University) Randy Presuhn (BMC Software, Inc.) David Reeder (TIS Labs at Network Associates) David Reid (SNMP Research, Inc.) Aleksey Romanov (Quality Quorum) Shawn Routhier (Epilogue) Juergen Schoenwaelder (TU Braunschweig) Bob Stewart (Cisco Systems) Mike Thatcher (Independent Consultant) Bert Wijnen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 70] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 The document is based on recommendations of the IETF Security and Administrative Framework Evolution for SNMP Advisory Team. Members of that Advisory Team were: David Harrington (Cabletron Systems Inc.) Jeff Johnson (Cisco Systems) David Levi (SNMP Research Inc.) John Linn (Openvision) Russ Mundy (Trusted Information Systems) chair Shawn Routhier (Epilogue) Glenn Waters (Nortel) Bert Wijnen (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) As recommended by the Advisory Team and the SNMPv3 Working Group Charter, the design incorporates as much as practical from previous RFCs and drafts. As a result, special thanks are due to the authors of previous designs known as SNMPv2u and SNMPv2*: Jeff Case (SNMP Research, Inc.) David Harrington (Cabletron Systems Inc.) David Levi (SNMP Research, Inc.) Keith McCloghrie (Cisco Systems) Brian O'Keefe (Hewlett Packard) Marshall T. Rose (Dover Beach Consulting) Jon Saperia (BGS Systems Inc.) Steve Waldbusser (International Network Services) Glenn W. Waters (Bell-Northern Research Ltd.) 11. Security Considerations 11.1. Recommended Practices This section describes practices that contribute to the secure, effective operation of the mechanisms defined in this memo. - An SNMP engine must discard SNMP Response messages that do not correspond to any currently outstanding Request message. It is the responsibility of the Message Processing module to take care of this. For example it can use a msgID for that. An SNMP Command Generator Application must discard any Response Class PDU for which there is no currently outstanding Confirmed Class PDU; for example for SNMPv2 [RFC3416] PDUs, the request-id component in the PDU can be used to correlate Responses to outstanding Requests. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 71] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 Although it would be typical for an SNMP engine and an SNMP Command Generator Application to do this as a matter of course, when using these security protocols it is significant due to the possibility of message duplication (malicious or otherwise). - If an SNMP engine uses a msgID for correlating Response messages to outstanding Request messages, then it MUST use different msgIDs in all such Request messages that it sends out during a Time Window (150 seconds) period. A Command Generator or Notification Originator Application MUST use different request-ids in all Request PDUs that it sends out during a TimeWindow (150 seconds) period. This must be done to protect against the possibility of message duplication (malicious or otherwise). For example, starting operations with a msgID and/or request-id value of zero is not a good idea. Initializing them with an unpredictable number (so they do not start out the same after each reboot) and then incrementing by one would be acceptable. - An SNMP engine should perform time synchronization using authenticated messages in order to protect against the possibility of message duplication (malicious or otherwise). - When sending state altering messages to a managed authoritative SNMP engine, a Command Generator Application should delay sending successive messages to that managed SNMP engine until a positive acknowledgement is received for the previous message or until the previous message expires. No message ordering is imposed by the SNMP. Messages may be received in any order relative to their time of generation and each will be processed in the ordered received. Note that when an authenticated message is sent to a managed SNMP engine, it will be valid for a period of time of approximately 150 seconds under normal circumstances, and is subject to replay during this period. Indeed, an SNMP engine and SNMP Command Generator Applications must cope with the loss and re-ordering of messages resulting from anomalies in the network as a matter of course. However, a managed object, snmpSetSerialNo [RFC3418], is specifically defined for use with SNMP Set operations in order to provide a mechanism to ensure that the processing of SNMP messages occurs in a specific order. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 72] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 - The frequency with which the secrets of a User-based Security Model user should be changed is indirectly related to the frequency of their use. Protecting the secrets from disclosure is critical to the overall security of the protocols. Frequent use of a secret provides a continued source of data that may be useful to a cryptanalyst in exploiting known or perceived weaknesses in an algorithm. Frequent changes to the secret avoid this vulnerability. Changing a secret after each use is generally regarded as the most secure practice, but a significant amount of overhead may be associated with that approach. Note, too, in a local environment the threat of disclosure may be less significant, and as such the changing of secrets may be less frequent. However, when public data networks are used as the communication paths, more caution is prudent. 11.2 Defining Users The mechanisms defined in this document employ the notion of users on whose behalf messages are sent. How "users" are defined is subject to the security policy of the network administration. For example, users could be individuals (e.g., "joe" or "jane"), or a particular role (e.g., "operator" or "administrator"), or a combination (e.g., "joe-operator", "jane-operator" or "joe-admin"). Furthermore, a user may be a logical entity, such as an SNMP Application or a set of SNMP Applications, acting on behalf of an individual or role, or set of individuals, or set of roles, including combinations. Appendix A describes an algorithm for mapping a user "password" to a 16/20 octet value for use as either a user's authentication key or privacy key (or both). Note however, that using the same password (and therefore the same key) for both authentication and privacy is very poor security practice and should be strongly discouraged. Passwords are often generated, remembered, and input by a human. Human-generated passwords may be less than the 16/20 octets required by the authentication and privacy protocols, and brute force attacks can be quite easy on a relatively short ASCII character set. Therefore, the algorithm is Appendix A performs a transformation on the password. If the Appendix A algorithm is used, SNMP implementations (and SNMP configuration applications) must ensure that passwords are at least 8 characters in length. Please note that longer passwords with repetitive strings may result in exactly the same key. For example, a password 'bertbert' will result in exactly the same key as password 'bertbertbert'. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 73] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 Because the Appendix A algorithm uses such passwords (nearly) directly, it is very important that they not be easily guessed. It is suggested that they be composed of mixed-case alphanumeric and punctuation characters that don't form words or phrases that might be found in a dictionary. Longer passwords improve the security of the system. Users may wish to input multiword phrases to make their password string longer while ensuring that it is memorable. Since it is infeasible for human users to maintain different passwords for every SNMP engine, but security requirements strongly discourage having the same key for more than one SNMP engine, the User-based Security Model employs a compromise proposed in [Localized-key]. It derives the user keys for the SNMP engines from user's password in such a way that it is practically impossible to either determine the user's password, or user's key for another SNMP engine from any combination of user's keys on SNMP engines. Note however, that if user's password is disclosed, then key localization will not help and network security may be compromised in this case. Therefore a user's password or non-localized key MUST NOT be stored on a managed device/node. Instead the localized key SHALL be stored (if at all), so that, in case a device does get compromised, no other managed or managing devices get compromised. 11.3. Conformance To be termed a "Secure SNMP implementation" based on the User-based Security Model, an SNMP implementation MUST: - implement one or more Authentication Protocol(s). The HMAC-MD5-96 and HMAC-SHA-96 Authentication Protocols defined in this memo are examples of such protocols. - to the maximum extent possible, prohibit access to the secret(s) of each user about which it maintains information in a Local Configuration Datastore (LCD) under all circumstances except as required to generate and/or validate SNMP messages with respect to that user. - implement the key-localization mechanism. - implement the SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB. In addition, an authoritative SNMP engine SHOULD provide initial configuration in accordance with Appendix A.1. Implementation of a Privacy Protocol (the DES Symmetric Encryption Protocol defined in this memo is one such protocol) is optional. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 74] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 11.4. Use of Reports The use of unsecure reports (i.e., sending them with a securityLevel of noAuthNoPriv) potentially exposes a non-authoritative SNMP engine to some form of attacks. Some people consider these denial of service attacks, others don't. An installation should evaluate the risk involved before deploying unsecure Report PDUs. 11.5 Access to the SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB The objects in this MIB may be considered sensitive in many environments. Specifically the objects in the usmUserTable contain information about users and their authentication and privacy protocols. It is important to closely control (both read and write) access to these MIB objects by using appropriately configured Access Control models (for example the View-based Access Control Model as specified in [RFC3415]). 12. References 12.1 Normative References [RFC1321] Rivest, R., "Message Digest Algorithm MD5", RFC 1321, April 1992. [RFC2104] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M. and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104, February 1997. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC2578] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)", STD 58, RFC 2578, April 1999. [RFC2579] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Textual Conventions for SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2579, April 1999. [RFC2580] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Conformance Statements for SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2580, April 1999. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 75] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 [RFC3411] Harrington, D., Presuhn, R. and B. Wijnen, "An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks", STD 62, RFC 3411, December 2002. [RFC3412] Case, J., Harrington, D., Presuhn, R. and B. Wijnen, "Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3412, December 2002. [RFC3415] Wijnen, B., Presuhn, R. and K. McCloghrie, "View- based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3415, December 2002. [RFC3416] Presuhn, R., Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3416, December 2002. [RFC3417] Presuhn, R., Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Transport Mappings for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3417, December 2002. [RFC3418] Presuhn, R., Case, J., McCloghrie, K., Rose, M. and S. Waldbusser, "Management Information Base (MIB) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3418, December 2002. [DES-NIST] Data Encryption Standard, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 46-1. Supersedes FIPS Publication 46, (January, 1977; reaffirmed January, 1988). [DESO-NIST] DES Modes of Operation, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 81, (December, 1980). [SHA-NIST] Secure Hash Algorithm. NIST FIPS 180-1, (April, 1995) http://csrc.nist.gov/fips/fip180-1.txt (ASCII) http://csrc.nist.gov/fips/fip180-1.ps (Postscript) Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 76] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 12.1 Informative References [Localized-Key] U. Blumenthal, N. C. Hien, B. Wijnen "Key Derivation for Network Management Applications" IEEE Network Magazine, April/May issue, 1997. [DES-ANSI] Data Encryption Algorithm, American National Standards Institute. ANSI X3.92-1981, (December, 1980). [DESO-ANSI] Data Encryption Algorithm - Modes of Operation, American National Standards Institute. ANSI X3.106- 1983, (May 1983). [DESG-NIST] Guidelines for Implementing and Using the NBS Data Encryption Standard, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 74, (April, 1981). [DEST-NIST] Validating the Correctness of Hardware Implementations of the NBS Data Encryption Standard, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Special Publication 500-20. [DESM-NIST] Maintenance Testing for the Data Encryption Standard, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Special Publication 500-61, (August, 1980). [RFC3174] Eastlake, D. 3rd and P. Jones, "US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1)", RFC 3174, September 2001. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 77] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 APPENDIX A - Installation A.1. SNMP engine Installation Parameters During installation, an authoritative SNMP engine SHOULD (in the meaning as defined in [RFC2119]) be configured with several initial parameters. These include: 1) A Security Posture The choice of security posture determines if initial configuration is implemented and if so how. One of three possible choices is selected: minimum-secure, semi-secure, very-secure (i.e., no-initial-configuration) In the case of a very-secure posture, there is no initial configuration, and so the following steps are irrelevant. 2) One or More Secrets These are the authentication/privacy secrets for the first user to be configured. One way to accomplish this is to have the installer enter a "password" for each required secret. The password is then algorithmically converted into the required secret by: - forming a string of length 1,048,576 octets by repeating the value of the password as often as necessary, truncating accordingly, and using the resulting string as the input to the MD5 algorithm [RFC1321]. The resulting digest, termed "digest1", is used in the next step. - a second string is formed by concatenating digest1, the SNMP engine's snmpEngineID value, and digest1. This string is used as input to the MD5 algorithm [RFC1321]. The resulting digest is the required secret (see Appendix A.2). Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 78] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 With these configured parameters, the SNMP engine instantiates the following usmUserEntry in the usmUserTable: no privacy support privacy support —————— ————— usmUserEngineID localEngineID localEngineID usmUserName "initial" "initial" usmUserSecurityName "initial" "initial" usmUserCloneFrom ZeroDotZero ZeroDotZero usmUserAuthProtocol usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol usmUserAuthKeyChange "" "" usmUserOwnAuthKeyChange "" "" usmUserPrivProtocol none usmDESPrivProtocol usmUserPrivKeyChange "" "" usmUserOwnPrivKeyChange "" "" usmUserPublic "" "" usmUserStorageType anyValidStorageType anyValidStorageType usmUserStatus active active It is recommended to also instantiate a set of template usmUserEntries which can be used as clone-from users for newly created usmUserEntries. These are the two suggested entries: no privacy support privacy support —————— ————— usmUserEngineID localEngineID localEngineID usmUserName "templateMD5" "templateMD5" usmUserSecurityName "templateMD5" "templateMD5" usmUserCloneFrom ZeroDotZero ZeroDotZero usmUserAuthProtocol usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol usmUserAuthKeyChange "" "" usmUserOwnAuthKeyChange "" "" usmUserPrivProtocol none usmDESPrivProtocol usmUserPrivKeyChange "" "" usmUserOwnPrivKeyChange "" "" usmUserPublic "" "" usmUserStorageType permanent permanent usmUserStatus active active Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 79] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 no privacy support privacy support —————— ————— usmUserEngineID localEngineID localEngineID usmUserName "templateSHA" "templateSHA" usmUserSecurityName "templateSHA" "templateSHA" usmUserCloneFrom ZeroDotZero ZeroDotZero usmUserAuthProtocol usmHMACSHAAuthProtocol usmHMACSHAAuthProtocol usmUserAuthKeyChange "" "" usmUserOwnAuthKeyChange "" "" usmUserPrivProtocol none usmDESPrivProtocol usmUserPrivKeyChange "" "" usmUserOwnPrivKeyChange "" "" usmUserPublic "" "" usmUserStorageType permanent permanent usmUserStatus active active A.2. Password to Key Algorithm A sample code fragment (section A.2.1) demonstrates the password to key algorithm which can be used when mapping a password to an authentication or privacy key using MD5. The reference source code of MD5 is available in [RFC1321]. Another sample code fragment (section A.2.2) demonstrates the password to key algorithm which can be used when mapping a password to an authentication or privacy key using SHA (documented in SHA- NIST). An example of the results of a correct implementation is provided (section A.3) which an implementor can use to check if his implementation produces the same result. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 80] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 A.2.1. Password to Key Sample Code for MD5 void password_to_key_md5( u_char *password, /* IN */ u_int passwordlen, /* IN */ u_char *engineID, /* IN - pointer to snmpEngineID */ u_int engineLength,/* IN - length of snmpEngineID */ u_char *key) /* OUT - pointer to caller 16-octet buffer */ { MD5_CTX MD; u_char *cp, password_buf[64]; u_long password_index = 0; u_long count = 0, i; MD5Init (&MD); /* initialize MD5 */ //

    /* Use while loop until we've done 1 Megabyte */
    /**********************************************/
    while (count < 1048576) {
       cp = password_buf;
       for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
           /*************************************************/
           /* Take the next octet of the password, wrapping */
           /* to the beginning of the password as necessary.*/
           /*************************************************/
           *cp++ = password[password_index++ % passwordlen];
       }
       MD5Update (&MD, password_buf, 64);
       count += 64;
    }
    MD5Final (key, &MD);          /* tell MD5 we're done */
    /*****************************************************/
    /* Now localize the key with the engineID and pass   */
    /* through MD5 to produce final key                  */
    /* May want to ensure that engineLength <= 32,       */
    /* otherwise need to use a buffer larger than 64     */
    /*****************************************************/
    memcpy(password_buf, key, 16);
    memcpy(password_buf+16, engineID, engineLength);
    memcpy(password_buf+16+engineLength, key, 16);
    MD5Init(&MD);
    MD5Update(&MD, password_buf, 32+engineLength);
    MD5Final(key, &MD);
    return;
 }

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A.2.2. Password to Key Sample Code for SHA

 void password_to_key_sha(
    u_char *password,    /* IN */
    u_int   passwordlen, /* IN */
    u_char *engineID,    /* IN  - pointer to snmpEngineID  */
    u_int   engineLength,/* IN  - length of snmpEngineID */
    u_char *key)         /* OUT - pointer to caller 20-octet buffer */
 {
    SHA_CTX     SH;
    u_char     *cp, password_buf[72];
    u_long      password_index = 0;
    u_long      count = 0, i;
    SHAInit (&SH);   /* initialize SHA */
    /**********************************************/
    /* Use while loop until we've done 1 Megabyte */
    /**********************************************/
    while (count < 1048576) {
       cp = password_buf;
       for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
           /*************************************************/
           /* Take the next octet of the password, wrapping */
           /* to the beginning of the password as necessary.*/
           /*************************************************/
           *cp++ = password[password_index++ % passwordlen];
       }
       SHAUpdate (&SH, password_buf, 64);
       count += 64;
    }
    SHAFinal (key, &SH);          /* tell SHA we're done */
    /*****************************************************/
    /* Now localize the key with the engineID and pass   */
    /* through SHA to produce final key                  */
    /* May want to ensure that engineLength <= 32,       */
    /* otherwise need to use a buffer larger than 72     */
    /*****************************************************/
    memcpy(password_buf, key, 20);
    memcpy(password_buf+20, engineID, engineLength);
    memcpy(password_buf+20+engineLength, key, 20);
    SHAInit(&SH);
    SHAUpdate(&SH, password_buf, 40+engineLength);
    SHAFinal(key, &SH);
    return;
 }

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A.3. Password to Key Sample Results

A.3.1. Password to Key Sample Results using MD5

 The following shows a sample output of the password to key algorithm
 for a 16-octet key using MD5.
 With a password of "maplesyrup" the output of the password to key
 algorithm before the key is localized with the SNMP engine's
 snmpEngineID is:
    '9f af 32 83 88 4e 92 83 4e bc 98 47 d8 ed d9 63'H
 After the intermediate key (shown above) is localized with the
 snmpEngineID value of:
    '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02'H
 the final output of the password to key algorithm is:
    '52 6f 5e ed 9f cc e2 6f 89 64 c2 93 07 87 d8 2b'H

A.3.2. Password to Key Sample Results using SHA

 The following shows a sample output of the password to key algorithm
 for a 20-octet key using SHA.
 With a password of "maplesyrup" the output of the password to key
 algorithm before the key is localized with the SNMP engine's
 snmpEngineID is:
    '9f b5 cc 03 81 49 7b 37 93 52 89 39 ff 78 8d 5d 79 14 52 11'H
 After the intermediate key (shown above) is localized with the
 snmpEngineID value of:
    '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02'H
 the final output of the password to key algorithm is:
    '66 95 fe bc 92 88 e3 62 82 23 5f c7 15 1f 12 84 97 b3 8f 3f'H

A.4. Sample Encoding of msgSecurityParameters

 The msgSecurityParameters in an SNMP message are represented as an
 OCTET STRING.  This OCTET STRING should be considered opaque outside
 a specific Security Model.

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 The User-based Security Model defines the contents of the OCTET
 STRING as a SEQUENCE (see section 2.4).
 Given these two properties, the following is an example of they
 msgSecurityParameters for the User-based Security Model, encoded as
 an OCTET STRING:
    04 <length>
    30 <length>
    04 <length> <msgAuthoritativeEngineID>
    02 <length> <msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots>
    02 <length> <msgAuthoritativeEngineTime>
    04 <length> <msgUserName>
    04 0c       <HMAC-MD5-96-digest>
    04 08       <salt>
 Here is the example once more, but now with real values (except for
 the digest in msgAuthenticationParameters and the salt in
 msgPrivacyParameters, which depend on variable data that we have not
 defined here):
    Hex Data                         Description
    --------------  -----------------------------------------------
    04 39           OCTET STRING,                  length 57
    30 37           SEQUENCE,                      length 55
    04 0c 80000002  msgAuthoritativeEngineID:      IBM
          01                                       IPv4 address
          09840301                                 9.132.3.1
    02 01 01        msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots:   1
    02 02 0101      msgAuthoritativeEngineTime:    257
    04 04 62657274  msgUserName:                   bert
    04 0c 01234567  msgAuthenticationParameters:   sample value
          89abcdef
          fedcba98
    04 08 01234567  msgPrivacyParameters:          sample value
          89abcdef

A.5. Sample keyChange Results

A.5.1. Sample keyChange Results using MD5

 Let us assume that a user has a current password of "maplesyrup" as
 in section A.3.1. and let us also assume the snmpEngineID of 12
 octets:
    '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02'H

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 If we now want to change the password to "newsyrup", then we first
 calculate the key for the new password.  It is as follows:
    '01 ad d2 73 10 7c 4e 59 6b 4b 00 f8 2b 1d 42 a7'H
 If we localize it for the above snmpEngineID, then the localized new
 key becomes:
    '87 02 1d 7b d9 d1 01 ba 05 ea 6e 3b f9 d9 bd 4a'H
 If we then use a (not so good, but easy to test) random value of:
    '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00'H
 Then the value we must send for keyChange is:
    '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
     88 05 61 51 41 67 6c c9 19 61 74 e7 42 a3 25 51'H
 If this were for the privacy key, then it would be exactly the same.

A.5.2. Sample keyChange Results using SHA

 Let us assume that a user has a current password of "maplesyrup" as
 in section A.3.2. and let us also assume the snmpEngineID of 12
 octets:
    '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02'H
 If we now want to change the password to "newsyrup", then we first
 calculate the key for the new password.  It is as follows:
    '3a 51 a6 d7 36 aa 34 7b 83 dc 4a 87 e3 e5 5e e4 d6 98 ac 71'H
 If we localize it for the above snmpEngineID, then the localized new
 key becomes:
    '78 e2 dc ce 79 d5 94 03 b5 8c 1b ba a5 bf f4 63 91 f1 cd 25'H
 If we then use a (not so good, but easy to test) random value of:
    '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00'H
 Then the value we must send for keyChange is:
    '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
     9c 10 17 f4 fd 48 3d 2d e8 d5 fa db f8 43 92 cb 06 45 70 51'

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 For the key used for privacy, the new nonlocalized key would be:
    '3a 51 a6 d7 36 aa 34 7b 83 dc 4a 87 e3 e5 5e e4 d6 98 ac 71'H
 For the key used for privacy, the new localized key would be (note
 that they localized key gets truncated to 16 octets for DES):
    '78 e2 dc ce 79 d5 94 03 b5 8c 1b ba a5 bf f4 63'H
 If we then use a (not so good, but easy to test) random value of:
    '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00'H
 Then the value we must send for keyChange for the privacy key is:
    '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    '7e f8 d8 a4 c9 cd b2 6b 47 59 1c d8 52 ff 88 b5'H

B. Change Log

 Changes made since RFC2574:
  1. Updated references
  2. Updated contact info
  3. Clarifications
    1. to first constraint item 1) on page 6.
    2. to usmUserCloneFrom DESCRIPTION clause
    3. to securityName in section 2.1
  4. Fixed "command responder" into "command generator" in last para of

DESCRIPTION clause of usmUserTable.

 Changes made since RFC2274:
  1. Fixed msgUserName to allow size of zero and explain that this can

be used for snmpEngineID discovery.

  1. Clarified section 3.1 steps 4.b, 5, 6 and 8.b.
  2. Clarified section 3.2 paragraph 2.
  3. Clarified section 3.2 step 7.a last paragraph, step 7.b.1 second

bullet and step 7.b.2 third bullet.

  1. Clarified section 4 to indicate that discovery can use a userName

of zero length in unAuthenticated messages, whereas a valid

   userName must be used in authenticated messages.
 - Added REVISION clauses to MODULE-IDENTITY
 - Clarified KeyChange TC by adding a note that localized keys must be
   used when calculating a KeyChange value.
 - Added clarifying text to the DESCRIPTION clause of usmUserTable.
   Added text describes a recommended procedure for adding a new user.
 - Clarified the use of usmUserCloneFrom object.

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  1. Clarified how and under which conditions the usmUserAuthProtocol

and usmUserPrivProtocol can be initialized and/or changed.

  1. Added comment on typical sizes for usmUserAuthKeyChange and

usmUserPrivKeyChange. Also for usmUserOwnAuthKeyChange and

   usmUserOwnPrivKeyChange.
 - Added clarifications to the DESCRIPTION clauses of
   usmUserAuthKeyChange, usmUserOwnAuthKeychange, usmUserPrivKeyChange
   and usmUserOwnPrivKeychange.
 - Added clarification to DESCRIPTION clause of usmUserStorageType.
 - Added clarification to DESCRIPTION clause of usmUserStatus.
 - Clarified IV generation procedure in section 8.1.1.1 and in
   addition clarified section 8.3.1 step 1 and section 8.3.2. step 3.
 - Clarified section 11.2 and added a warning that different size
   passwords with repetitive strings may result in same key.
 - Added template users to appendix A for cloning process.
 - Fixed C-code examples in Appendix A.
 - Fixed examples of generated keys in Appendix A.
 - Added examples of KeyChange values to Appendix A.
 - Used PDU Classes instead of RFC1905 PDU types.
 - Added text in the security section about Reports and Access Control
   to the MIB.
 - Removed a incorrect note at the end of section 3.2 step 7.
 - Added a note in section 3.2 step 3.
 - Corrected various spelling errors and typos.
 - Corrected procedure for 3.2 step 2.a)
 - various clarifications.
 - Fixed references to new/revised documents
 - Change to no longer cache data that is not used

Editors' Addresses

 Uri Blumenthal
 Lucent Technologies
 67 Whippany Rd.
 Whippany, NJ 07981
 USA
 Phone: +1-973-386-2163
 EMail: uri@lucent.com
 Bert Wijnen
 Lucent Technologies
 Schagen 33
 3461 GL Linschoten
 Netherlands
 Phone: +31-348-480-685
 EMail: bwijnen@lucent.com

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