[SNMP4J] 3DES implementation

Jochen Katz katz at agentpp.com
Fri Aug 5 21:09:59 CEST 2011


Hi,

> I'm using SNMP4J 3DES to test a SNMP agent. Found the implementation of 
> Priv3DES::extendShortKey() is different from the definition in the Internet 
> Draft 'Extension to the User-Based Security Model (USM) to Support Triple-DES 
> EDE.
> 
> According to the draft section 2.1, the P2K algorithm takes the key as 
> Input_bits generated by P2K call in the previous iteration. But 
> Priv3DES::extendShortKey() takes the extended-key as input. Could you please 
> confirm if it's a bug?

yes, and snmp++ has the same bug. It will be fixed for the next release.

Thanks for reporting it,
  Jochen



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