libdes and SNMPv3 encryption

[Jochen Katz]

Hi,

> I'm using snmp++/agent++ with SNMPv3 defined, my reason for using SNMPv3 is
> mainly because of the proxy forwarder capability.
> As a result of that I need to compile libdes library, my concern is that
> libdes is an encryption library and I know that there are some export
> restrictions using such libraries. I'm not interested at all in using any
> encryption under SNMPv3.
> Is there a way to build SNMPv3 snmp++/agent++ but without libdes ? Does the
> proxy forwarder implementation requires such a library ?

it should be easy to remove all references to the libdes library, as it
is only used in snmp++/src/auth_priv.cpp. All you need to do is to
remove the calls to libdes and return an appropriate error code.

Kind regards,
  Jochen