VMware Aria Operations for Networks supports several encryption algorithms and ciphers for data sources.

The following table lists the encryption algorithms and ciphers that are supported for data sources in Supported Products and Versions.

Data sources Encryption Algorithms and Ciphers

Arista switches

Brocade VDX switches

Check Point Firewall

Cisco ASA V Series

Cisco ASR and ISR

Cisco ASR/ISR for SD-WAN Assessment

Cisco Catalyst 3000, 4500, 6500, 9300

Cisco Nexus N5000, N7000, N9000

Cisco UCS Fabric interconnect

Dell Force 10 S6000, PowerConnect 8024, S4048, S4810

Dell OS 10

HPE 5940, 10500

HP Virtual Connect Manager

Huawei Cloud Engine

Juniper switches

Mellanox

Key exchange algorithms:

  • curve25519-sha256
  • [email protected]
  • ecdh-sha2-nistp256
  • ecdh-sha2-nistp384
  • ecdh-sha2-nistp521
  • diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
  • diffie-hellman-group16-sha512
  • diffie-hellman-group18-sha512
  • diffie-hellman-group14-sha256

Ciphers:

MACs:

Host key algorithms:

  • ecdsa-sha2-nistp256
  • ecdsa-sha2-nistp384
  • ecdsa-sha2-nistp521
  • rsa-sha2-512
  • rsa-sha2-256
  • rsa-sha2-512

  • ssh-rsa

Brocade MLX

Dell Force 10 MXL 10

Key exchange algorithms:

  • diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1
  • diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
  • diffie-hellman-group14-sha1

Ciphers:

  • blowfish-cbc
  • blowfish-ctr
  • 3des-cbc
  • 3des-ctr
  • aes128-cbc
  • aes128-ctr
  • aes192-cbc
  • aes192-ctr
  • aes256-cbc
  • aes256-ctr

MACs:

  • hmac-md5
  • hmac-md5-96
  • hmac-sha1
  • hmac-sha1-96

Host key algorithms:

  • ssh-rsa

    Note: VMware Aria Operations for Networks only supports ssh-rsa algorithms with 1024 bit keys. ssh-rsa algorithms with 2048 bit keys are not supported.
  • ssh-dss