I think the pull request to add authentication and authorization to storm is now ready to be merged into master.
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/121#issuecomment-62754593 It is a little different from most pull requests, because of its size and all. As I said in the comment but I would like to see what the community thinks of it. Please comment on the pull request itself so that it appears in the JIRA too. Thanks, BobbyEvans