Allow withdrawer to change the authorized stake key #8456
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Problem
Users are likely to treat their "authorized staker" key as a hot key and keep their "authorized withdrawer" key in cold storage. If the staker key is compromised and set to a new key by an attacker, there's currently no way to use a "master" key from cold storage to reset it.
Summary of Changes
Permit the withdrawer key to change the staker key.
Note: This does not make the same change to the Vote program for two reasons:
Fixes #8446