Ismael also wrote this security blog post about Kafka security. Hope you
find it useful:
https://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-kafka-security-authorization-authentication-encryption/


On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 12:04 AM, Waleed Fateem <waleed.fat...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> For completion, I saw Ismael Juma post an answer which contains the
> information I was looking for:
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.kafka.user/15140
>
> SASL_SSL -> authentication using SASL AND connection is encrypted using
> SSL.
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Waleed Fateem <waleed.fat...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'm not very clear on the behavior that we should expect when we
> configure
> > Kafka to use the protocol SASL_SSL.
> >
> > Is SASL or SSL mutually exclusive here or can I authenticate with SASL
> and
> > use SSL for encryption?
> >
> > If the latter is true, then is it correct to assume that encryption will
> > take place using SSL if a client authenticates using a Kerberos ticket so
> > long as they have a trust store configured?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Waleed
> >
>



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