Authentication in OSPFv3

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 01:58:33AM +0000, Derek Pan wrote:
> Hi Job and Stuart,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. 
> 
> I know the ospfv3 authentication relies on IPsec. 
> But I'm still a little confused with the words:  
> "The default cryptographic algorithm for OSPFv2 keys is Keyed-MD5 and for OSPFv3 keys is HMAC-SHA-256."

Hi

We currently do not support authentication in OSPFv3, but we have some
WiP on RFC 7166, and this note in documentation gets here from that.
So, when we will have RFC 7166, default would be HMAC-SHA-256.

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