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tipc: add automatic session key exchange

      With support from the master key option in the previous commit, it
becomes easy to make frequent updates/exchanges of session keys between
authenticated cluster nodes.
Basically, there are two situations where the key exchange will take in
place:

- When a new node joins the cluster (with the master key), it will need
  to get its peer's TX key, so that be able to decrypt further messages
  from that peer.

- When a new session key is generated (by either user manual setting or
  later automatic rekeying feature), the key will be distributed to all
  peer nodes in the cluster.

A key to be exchanged is encapsulated in the data part of a 'MSG_CRYPTO
/KEY_DISTR_MSG' TIPC v2 message, then xmit-ed as usual and encrypted by
using the master key before sending out. Upon receipt of the message it
will be decrypted in the same way as regular messages, then attached as
the sender's RX key in the receiver node.

In this way, the key exchange is reliable b
    
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