This is used to secure the cookies. Encryption keys and message
authentication keys are derived from this using one-way functions.
Changing it will invalidate all sessions.
Number of seconds for which the session may be considered valid. If
cookie_duration is not set, this is used instead to expire the session
after a period of time, regardless of the length of the browser
session. It is unset by default, meaning that sessions expiration is
not capped.