A hash is not guaranteed unique so is not suitable as a security token.

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On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:49 PM, galen-pivotal <g...@git.apache.org> wrote:

> Github user galen-pivotal commented on the issue:
>
>     https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/719
>
>     @metatype We need the `StreamAuthenticator` to receive and send
> (Protobuf-encoded) messages containing the credentials that get passed to
> the `SecurityManager`. I would think that ideally it's nothing more than
> this.
>
>     I wonder if it would be better to send a hash that gets put into the
> Properties that SecurityManager uses, rather than having a message that
> explicitly contains username and password.
>
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