> we have published a draft on a new authentication protocol for USM for SNMP.
> 
> Abstract
> 
>    This memo specifies a new optional HMAC-SHA-256-128 authentication
>    protocol for the User-based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3 defined
>    in RFC 3414.
> 
> The new protocol is a straightforward adaptation of the protocols 
> HMAC-MD5-96 and HMAC-SHA-96 from RFC 3414 to the SHA-256 based HMAC 
> with truncation to 128 bits. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Would it be valuable to also add SHA-512?

We actually implemented all 4 bit lengths of SHA2. I think that's overkill.
But 512 might be valuable.

-David Reid
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