[GitHub] asfgit closed pull request #752: ZOOKEEPER-3197 - Improve documentation in ZooKeeperServer.superSecret

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asfgit closed pull request #752: ZOOKEEPER-3197 - Improve documentation in ZooKeeperServer.superSecret
URL: https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/752
 
 
   

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diff --git a/zookeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/zookeeper/server/ZooKeeperServer.java b/zookeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/zookeeper/server/ZooKeeperServer.java
index b417a8f095..20ab023ec5 100644
--- a/zookeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/zookeeper/server/ZooKeeperServer.java
+++ b/zookeeper-server/src/main/java/org/apache/zookeeper/server/ZooKeeperServer.java
@@ -116,8 +116,10 @@
     }
 
     /**
-     * This is the secret that we use to generate passwords, for the moment it
-     * is more of a sanity check.
+     * This is the secret that we use to generate passwords. For the moment,
+     * it's more of a checksum that's used in reconnection, which carries no
+     * security weight, and is treated internally as if it carries no
+     * security weight.
      */
     static final private long superSecret = 0XB3415C00L;
 


 

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