Re:Wrong summation (again). (Score 1)

Kudos to Wes. He put this well. SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c were not designed with security in mind (obviously, with a plain-text community string in every packet). The community string is used to identify in which context management data is to be returned. There is a long and sad history about what happened with attempts to secure SNMPv2. In the long run, it just didn't happen. SNMPv3, now, is another story. There have been concerns that its current privacy model (DES) is insufficient, but there have been no concerns expressed (that I am aware of) about its authentication model.