11 Working with Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)

SPDM defines messages, data objects, and sequences for performing message exchanges between devices over a variety of transport and physical media. It coordinates the message exchanges between the Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) and end-point devices over a Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP).

SPDM Message exchanges enable the requester to:

  • Discover and negotiate the security capabilities of a responder
  • Authenticate the identity of a responder
  • Retrieve the measurements of a responder
  • Securely establish cryptographic session keys to construct a secure communication channel for the transmission or reception of application data
maxView provides the following operations:
  • Get the certificate chain from the specified slot [0-7]
  • Import the certificate chain to the specified slot [0-7]
  • Invalidate the certificate chain on the specified slot [0-7]