Re: Open LDAP and SNMP

["Mark H. Wood" <mwood@IUPUI.Edu>]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Michael Ströder wrote:
[snip]
> Personally I'm rather scared of security aspects with SNMP. But I'm not
> really up-to-date with recent SNMP standardization/implementations.

Security in SNMPv1 and v2 is a cruel joke.  SNMPv3 has real cryptographic
authentication and privacy.  The greatest remaining problem in this area
is that many, many products still haven't implemented v3.

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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
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