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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 3] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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: Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 4] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 - Modification of Information The modification threat is the danger that some unauthorized entity may alter in-transit SNMP messages generated on behalf of an authorized principal in such a way as to effect unauthorized management operations, including falsifying the value of an object. - Masquerade The masquerade threat is the danger that management operations not authorized for some user may be attempted by assuming the identity of another user that has the appropriate authorizations. Two secondary threats are also identified. The Security Model defined in this memo provides limited protection against: - Disclosure The disclosure threat is the danger of eavesdropping on the exchanges between managed agents and a management station. Protecting against this threat may be required as a matter of local policy. - Message Stream Modification The SNMP protocol is typically based upon a connection-less transport service which may operate over any sub-network service. The re-ordering, delay or replay of messages can and does occur through the natural operation of many such sub- network services. The message stream modification threat is the danger that messages may be maliciously re-ordered, delayed or replayed to an extent which is greater than can occur through the natural operation of a sub-network service, in order to effect unauthorized management operations. There are at least two threats that an SNMP Security Model need not protect against. The security protocols defined in this memo do not provide protection against: - Denial of Service This SNMP Security Model does not attempt to address the broad range of attacks by which service on behalf of authorized users is denied. Indeed, such denial-of-service attacks are in many cases indistinguishable from the type of network failures with which any viable network management protocol must cope as a matter of course. - Traffic Analysis This SNMP Security Model does not attempt to address traffic analysis attacks. Indeed, many traffic patterns are predictable - devices may be managed on a regular basis by a relatively small number of management applications - and therefore there is no significant advantage afforded by protecting against traffic analysis. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 5] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 1.2. Goals and Constraints Based on the foregoing account of threats in the SNMP network management environment, the goals of this SNMP Security Model are as follows. 1) Provide for verification that each received SNMP message has not been modified during its transmission through the network. 2) Provide for verification of the identity of the user on whose behalf a received SNMP message claims to have been generated. 3) Provide for detection of received SNMP messages, which request or contain management information, whose time of generation was not recent. 4) Provide, when necessary, that the contents of each received SNMP message are protected from disclosure. In addition to the principal goal of supporting secure network management, the design of this SNMP Security Model is also influenced by the following constraints: 1) When the requirements of effective management in times of network stress are inconsistent with those of security, the design of USM has given preference to the former. 2) Neither the security protocol nor its underlying security mechanisms should depend upon the ready availability of other network services (e.g., Network Time Protocol (NTP) or key management protocols). 3) A security mechanism should entail no changes to the basic SNMP network management philosophy. 1.3. Security Services The security services necessary to support the goals of this SNMP Security Model are as follows: - Data Integrity is the provision of the property that data has not been altered or destroyed in an unauthorized manner, nor have data sequences been altered to an extent greater than can occur non- maliciously. - Data Origin Authentication is the provision of the property that the claimed identity of the user on whose behalf received data was originated is corroborated. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 6] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 - Data Confidentiality is the provision of the property that information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized individuals, entities, or processes. - Message timeliness and limited replay protection is the provision of the property that a message whose generation time is outside of a specified time window is not accepted. Note that message reordering is not dealt with and can occur in normal conditions too. For the protocols specified in this memo, it is not possible to assure the specific originator of a received SNMP message; rather, it is the user on whose behalf the message was originated that is authenticated. For these protocols, it not possible to obtain data integrity without data origin authentication, nor is it possible to obtain data origin authentication without data integrity. Further, there is no provision for data confidentiality without both data integrity and data origin authentication. The security protocols used in this memo are considered acceptably secure at the time of writing. However, the procedures allow for new authentication and privacy methods to be specified at a future time if the need arises. 1.4. Module Organization The security protocols defined in this memo are split in three different modules and each has its specific responsibilities such that together they realize the goals and security services described above: - The authentication module MUST provide for: - Data Integrity, - Data Origin Authentication, - The timeliness module MUST provide for: - Protection against message delay or replay (to an extent greater than can occur through normal operation). - The privacy module MUST provide for - Protection against disclosure of the message payload. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 7] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 8] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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]). Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 9] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 10] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 ) Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 11] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 12] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 authProtocol An indication of whether messages sent on behalf of this user can be authenticated, and if so, the type of authentication protocol which is used. Two such protocols are defined in this memo: - the HMAC-MD5-96 authentication protocol. - the HMAC-SHA-96 authentication protocol. authKey If messages sent on behalf of this user can be authenticated, the (private) authentication key for use with the authentication protocol. Note that a user's authentication key will normally be different at different authoritative SNMP engines. The authKey is not accessible via SNMP. The length requirements of the authKey are defined by the authProtocol in use. authKeyChange and authOwnKeyChange The only way to remotely update the authentication key. Does that in a secure manner, so that the update can be completed without the need to employ privacy protection. privProtocol An indication of whether messages sent on behalf of this user can be protected from disclosure, and if so, the type of privacy protocol which is used. One such protocol is defined in this memo: the CBC-DES Symmetric Encryption Protocol. privKey If messages sent on behalf of this user can be en/decrypted, the (private) privacy key for use with the privacy protocol. Note that a user's privacy key will normally be different at different authoritative SNMP engines. The privKey is not accessible via SNMP. The length requirements of the privKey are defined by the privProtocol in use. privKeyChange and privOwnKeyChange The only way to remotely update the encryption key. Does that in a secure manner, so that the update can be completed without the need to employ privacy protection. 2.2. Replay Protection Each SNMP engine maintains three objects: - snmpEngineID, which (at least within an administrative domain) uniquely and unambiguously identifies an SNMP engine. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 13] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 - snmpEngineBoots, which is a count of the number of times the SNMP engine has re-booted/re-initialized since snmpEngineID was last configured; and, - snmpEngineTime, which is the number of seconds since the snmpEngineBoots counter was last incremented. Each SNMP engine is always authoritative with respect to these objects in its own SNMP entity. It is the responsibility of a non- authoritative SNMP engine to synchronize with the authoritative SNMP engine, as appropriate. An authoritative SNMP engine is required to maintain the values of its snmpEngineID and snmpEngineBoots in non-volatile storage. 2.2.1. msgAuthoritativeEngineID The msgAuthoritativeEngineID value contained in an authenticated message is used to defeat attacks in which messages from one SNMP engine to another SNMP engine are replayed to a different SNMP engine. It represents the snmpEngineID at the authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the message. When an authoritative SNMP engine is first installed, it sets its local value of snmpEngineID according to a enterprise-specific algorithm (see the definition of the Textual Convention for SnmpEngineID in the SNMP Architecture document [RFC3411]). 2.2.2. msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots and msgAuthoritativeEngineTime The msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots and msgAuthoritativeEngineTime values contained in an authenticated message are used to defeat attacks in which messages are replayed when they are no longer valid. They represent the snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime values at the authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the message. Through use of snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime, there is no requirement for an SNMP engine to have a non-volatile clock which ticks (i.e., increases with the passage of time) even when the SNMP engine is powered off. Rather, each time an SNMP engine re-boots, it retrieves, increments, and then stores snmpEngineBoots in non-volatile storage, and resets snmpEngineTime to zero. When an SNMP engine is first installed, it sets its local values of snmpEngineBoots and snmpEngineTime to zero. If snmpEngineTime ever reaches its maximum value (2147483647), then snmpEngineBoots is incremented as if the SNMP engine has re-booted and snmpEngineTime is reset to zero and starts incrementing again. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 14] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 15] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 16] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 } END The fields of this sequence are: - The msgAuthoritativeEngineID specifies the snmpEngineID of the authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the message. - The msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots specifies the snmpEngineBoots value at the authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the message. - The msgAuthoritativeEngineTime specifies the snmpEngineTime value at the authoritative SNMP engine involved in the exchange of the message. - The msgUserName specifies the user (principal) on whose behalf the message is being exchanged. Note that a zero-length userName will not match any user, but it can be used for snmpEngineID discovery. - The msgAuthenticationParameters are defined by the authentication protocol in use for the message, as defined by the usmUserAuthProtocol column in the user's entry in the usmUserTable. - The msgPrivacyParameters are defined by the privacy protocol in use for the message, as defined by the usmUserPrivProtocol column in the user's entry in the usmUserTable). See appendix A.4 for an example of the BER encoding of field msgSecurityParameters. 2.5. Services provided by the User-based Security Model This section describes the services provided by the User-based Security Model with their inputs and outputs. The services are described as primitives of an abstract service interface and the inputs and outputs are described as abstract data elements as they are passed in these abstract service primitives. 2.5.1. Services for Generating an Outgoing SNMP Message When the Message Processing (MP) Subsystem invokes the User-based Security module to secure an outgoing SNMP message, it must use the appropriate service as provided by the Security module. These two services are provided: Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 17] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 18] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 19] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 20] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 21] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 22] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 23] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 24] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 25] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 26] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 ) Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 27] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 statusInformation indicates if authentication was successful or not. authKey the user's localized private authKey is the secret key that can be used by the authentication algorithm. wholeMsg the complete serialized message to be authenticated. authenticatedWholeMsg the same as the input given to the authenticateIncomingMsg service, but after authentication has been checked. If the authentication module returns failure, then the message cannot be trusted, so the usmStatsWrongDigests counter is incremented and an error indication (authenticationFailure) together with the OID and value of the incremented counter is returned to the calling module. If the authentication module returns success, then the message is authentic and can be trusted so processing continues. 7) If the securityLevel indicates an authenticated message, then the local values of snmpEngineBoots, snmpEngineTime and latestReceivedEngineTime corresponding to the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineID field are extracted from the Local Configuration Datastore. a) If the extracted value of msgAuthoritativeEngineID is the same as the value of snmpEngineID of the processing SNMP engine (meaning this is the authoritative SNMP engine), then if any of the following conditions is true, then the message is considered to be outside of the Time Window: - the local value of snmpEngineBoots is 2147483647; - the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field differs from the local value of snmpEngineBoots; or, - the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field differs from the local notion of snmpEngineTime by more than +/- 150 seconds. If the message is considered to be outside of the Time Window then the usmStatsNotInTimeWindows counter is incremented and an error indication (notInTimeWindow) together with the OID, the value of the incremented counter, and an indication that Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 28] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 the error must be reported with a securityLevel of authNoPriv, is returned to the calling module b) If the extracted value of msgAuthoritativeEngineID is not the same as the value snmpEngineID of the processing SNMP engine (meaning this is not the authoritative SNMP engine), then: 1) if at least one of the following conditions is true: - the extracted value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field is greater than the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots; or, - the extracted value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field is equal to the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots, and the extracted value of msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field is greater than the value of latestReceivedEngineTime, then the LCD entry corresponding to the extracted value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineID field is updated, by setting: - the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots to the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field, - the local notion of the value of snmpEngineTime to the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field, and - the latestReceivedEngineTime to the value of the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field. 2) if any of the following conditions is true, then the message is considered to be outside of the Time Window: - the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots is 2147483647; - the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field is less than the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots; or, - the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots field is equal to the local notion of the value of snmpEngineBoots and the value of the msgAuthoritativeEngineTime field is more than 150 seconds less than the local notion of the value of snmpEngineTime. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 29] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 30] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 31] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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 Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 32] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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" Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 33] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 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. Blumenthal & Wijnen Standards Track [Page 34] RFC 3414 USM for SNMPv3 December 2002 Supersedes FIPS Publication 46, (January, 1977; reaffirmed January, 1988). - Data Encryption Algorithm, American National Standards Institute. ANSI X3.92-1981, (December, 1980). - DES Modes of Operation, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 81, (December, 1980). - Data Encryption Algorithm - Modes of Operation, American National Standards Institute. ANSI X3.106-1983, (May 1983). " ::= { snmpPrivProtocols 2 } -- Textual Conventions *********************************************** KeyChange ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION STATUS current DESCRIPTION "Every definition of an object with this syntax must identify a protocol P, a secret key K, and a hash algorithm H that produces output of L octets. The object's value is a manager-generated, partially-random value which, when modified, causes the value of the secret key K, to be modified via a one-way function. The value of an instance of this object is the concatenation of two components: first a 'random' component and then a 'delta' component. The lengths of the random and delta components are given by the corresponding value of the protocol P; if P requires K to be a fixed length, the length of both the random and delta components is that fixed length; if P allows the length of K to be variable up to a particular maximum length, the length of the random component is that maximum length and the length of the delta component is any length less than or equal to that maximum length. For example, usmHMACMD5AuthProtocol requires K to be a fixed length of 16 octets and L - of 16 octets. usmHMACSHAAuthProtocol requires K to be a fixed length of 20 octets and L - of 20 octets. Other protocols may define other sizes, as deemed appropriate. 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 curre