Software raid/management trusted storage-device-based communication system

An Information Handling System (IHS), comprising:

• a processing system;
• and
• a memory system that is coupled to the processing system and that includes instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to provide a management engine that is configured to:
• authenticate a storage device that is coupled to the processing system to establish management engine/storage device trust between the processing system and the storage device;
• use, in response to establishing the management engine/storage device trust, the storage device to establish management engine/software Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) subsystem trust between the management engine and a software RAID subsystem that is coupled to the storage device;
• and
• transmit, in response to establishing the management engine/storage device trust and the management engine/software RAID subsystem trust, communications with the software RAID subsystem via the storage device memory subsystem in the storage device.

A method for providing trusted storage-device-based communications between a software Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) subsystem and a management subsystem in a computing device, comprising:

• authenticating, by a management subsystem, a storage device that is coupled to the management subsystem to establish management subsystem/storage device trust between the management subsystem and the storage device;
• using, by the management subsystem in response to establishing the management subsystem/storage device trust, the storage device to establish management subsystem/software Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) subsystem trust between the management subsystem and a software RAID subsystem that is coupled to the storage device;
• and
• transmitting, by the management subsystem in response to establishing the management subsystem/storage device trust and the management subsystem/software RAID subsystem trust, communications with the software RAID subsystem via the storage device memory subsystem in the storage device.