vRealize Network Insight 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 Catalyst 9300

Cisco Nexus N5000, N7000, N9000

Cisco UCS Fabric interconnect

Dell Force 10 S6000, Force 10 MXL 10, PowerConnect 8024, S4048, S4810

HPE 5940, 10500

HP Virtual Connect Manager

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

Cisco Catalyst 3000, 4500, 6500

Cisco ASR/ISR for SD-WAN Assessment

Dell OS 10

Huawei Cloud Engine

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: vRealize Network Insight only supports ssh-rsa algorithms with 1024 bit keys. ssh-rsa algorithms with 2048 bit keys are not supported.
  • ssh-dss