Security & SSL Setup in Confluent Kafka
Reading Time: 2 minutes What is SSL ? Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a security protocol for the transport layer. In SSL Protocol data is divided into fragments. The fragments are compressed and encrypted Message Authentication Code (MAC) generated by algorithms like Secure Hash Protocol(SHA) and MD5(Message Digest) is appended. SSL is the predecessor of Transport Layer Security(TLS) . After encryption of data, finally, the SSL header is appended Continue Reading