[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] saquery: --smkey command line option

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 08:10 Thu 22 May     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> 
> I think it will tend towards proliferation of keys which will defeat any
> security/trust. The idea of SMKey was to keep it private between SMs.
> This is now spreading it wider IMO.

Probably original idea was different, but now in IBA spec knowing a valid
SM_Key is mandatory for privileged SA clients (which need to get whole
list of MCMemberRecord, ServiceInfo, etc.).

Sasha