replace io.Discard usage to fix NUMA copy() latencies
On NUMA systems copying from 8K buffer allocated via
io.Discard leads to large latency build-up for every
```
copy(new8kbuf, largebuf)
```
can in-cur upto 1ms worth of latencies on NUMA systems
due to memory sharding across NUMA nodes.
This change adds a `Secret` property to `HelpKV` to identify secrets
like passwords and auth tokens that should not be revealed by the server
in its configuration fetching APIs. Configuration reporting APIs now do
not return secrets.
