A manager sending an SNMPv3 request must set this property to the values needed for user authentication and encryption. Agents are authoritative when responding to Manager requests and sending traps. Managers are authoritative when responding to Inform requests.

An agent sending an SNMPv3 trap will typically set this property to a user found in Agent.AuthoritativeEngine.Users.

This class caches intermediate hashing and encryption values, so re-using instances improves performance.

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