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Larry McCay commented on HADOOP-10791:
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So, how does the signature get validated if it is a randomized secret? It has
to be stored somewhere, no?
If the random impl eliminates storing clear text secrets for this then we may
not need the credential api impl after all.
> AuthenticationFilter should support externalizing the secret for signing and
> provide rotation support
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> Key: HADOOP-10791
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10791
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: security
> Affects Versions: 2.4.1
> Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
> Assignee: Robert Kanter
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> It should be possible to externalize the secret used to sign the hadoop-auth
> cookies.
> In the case of WebHDFS the shared secret used by NN and DNs could be used. In
> the case of Oozie HA, the secret could be stored in Oozie HA control data in
> ZooKeeper.
> In addition, it is desirable for the secret to change periodically, this
> means that the AuthenticationService should remember a previous secret for
> the max duration of hadoop-auth cookie.
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