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? >> > >> >
