Hi Ismael,

BTW looks like I don't have the permission to add a KIP in Kafka space. Can
you please grant me the permission?

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 at 09:40 tao xiao <xiaotao...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ismael,
>
> Thank you for your reply. I am happy to have a writeup on this.
>
> Can you think of any other ways to make security protocol pluggable
> instead of extending ChannelBuilder?
>
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 at 02:14 Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tao,
>>
>> As you say, security protocols are not currently pluggable.
>> `ChannelBuilder` is already an interface, but `SecurityProtocol` is an
>> enum, which makes it hard for users to add additional security protocols.
>> Changing this would probably require a KIP:
>>
>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Improvement+Proposals
>>
>> Ismael
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 3:15 AM, tao xiao <xiaotao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Kafka team,
>> >
>> > I want to know if I can plug-in my own security protocol to Kafka to
>> > implement project specific authentication mechanism. The current
>> supported
>> > authentication protocols, SASL/GSSAPI and SSL, are not supported in my
>> > company and we have own security protocol to do authentication.
>> >
>> > Is it a good idea to make ChannelBuilder extensible so that I can
>> implement
>> > it with my own security channel?
>> >
>>
>

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