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Current state: ["DISCUSSION"]. 

Discussion thread: here

JIRA: KAFKA-1696 

Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

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Q1. Is there any dependency on Hadoop APIs/Libraries?

A. No.

Future Work

1.  Support for master key rotation
2.  Support impersonation Use cases: Allow users to acquire delegation tokens on behalf of other users

Alternatives

Originally we considered to not have any shared Secret at config level. This required us to chose one of the 3 options:

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