How to Configure OSPF Plain Text Authentication

Hello Narad

OSPFv2 does use MD5 for encryption of the authentication process. You can find out more here:

In addition, OSPFv2 based on RFC 2328 allows only MD5, but RFC 5709 has added the use of HMAC-SHA algorithms for cryptographic authentication.

As for OPSFv3, it supports authentication with IPsec. You can find out more about that here:

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz