Are we planning on updating the security section in Kafka documentation?

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Rajini Sivaram
<rajinisiva...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Magnus,
>
> Yes, you are absolutely right. I have fixed the wiki page. Thank you for
> pointing it out.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rajini
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Magnus Edenhill <mag...@edenhill.se> wrote:
>
>> Rajini,
>>
>> I think I found a small documentation error on the KIP-43 wiki page, it
>> says the SASL framing size is int16, but I believe it should be int32.
>>
>> Can you verify?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Magnus
>>
>>
>> 2016-04-25 15:38 GMT+02:00 Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@googlemail.com>:
>>
>> > Magnus,
>> >
>> > I have updated KIP-43 to include a section with the handshake
>> > request/response format. Have also added some more text to distinguish
>> the
>> > actual authentication flow from the Kafka handshake/request flow.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> >
>> > Rajini
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:41 AM, Magnus Edenhill <mag...@edenhill.se>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Rajini,
>> > >
>> > > the KIP wiki is a bit unclear on the protocol changes.
>> > > Could you document the proposed Kafka protocol requests&responses in
>> the
>> > > standard format (as on "A guide to the Kafka protocol").
>> > > This information should also be added to that page when the KIP is
>> > > accepted.
>> > > I think it would also be good to clarify what SASL handshake means, if
>> > that
>> > > is the Kafka-leved SASL mechanism handshake or the opaque SASL data
>> > > handshake performed by the SASL libraries.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Magnus
>> > >
>> > > 2016-04-19 17:20 GMT-07:00 Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io>:
>> > >
>> > > > Just to close the loop on this. Discussed with Magnus offline on how
>> > > KIP-43
>> > > > and KIP-35 can play together. We agreed upon the following proposal.
>> > > >
>> > > > On a SASL port,
>> > > >
>> > > > client sends:
>> > > >
>> > > >     ApiVersionRequest (optional), SaslHandshakeRequest, SASL tokens
>> > (size
>> > > > delimited as being done now), regular api requests
>> > > >
>> > > > client receives:
>> > > >
>> > > >     ApiVersionResponse (optional), SaslHandshakeResponse, SASL tokens
>> > > (size
>> > > > delimited as being done now), regular api responses
>> > > >
>> > > > The format of SaslHandshakeRequest is what's currently described in
>> > > > KIP-43. There
>> > > > will be some minor tweaks on ApiVersionResponse, which Magnus will
>> > follow
>> > > > up in the KIP-35 thread itself.
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks,
>> > > >
>> > > > Jun
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Rajini Sivaram <
>> > > > rajinisiva...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > I have updated the PR (https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/812)
>> and
>> > > > > KIP-43
>> > > > > to use standard Kafka format for the new request/response added by
>> > > > KIP-43.
>> > > > > I haven't changed the overall structure of the Java code. Feedback
>> is
>> > > > > appreciated.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Thanks,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Rajini
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > Hi Jun,
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Comments inline.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io>
>> wrote:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Yes, that should be fine right? Since the new api key will
>> start
>> > > with
>> > > > > a 0
>> > > > > > > byte, it actually guarantees that it's different from 0x60 (1st
>> > > byte
>> > > > in
>> > > > > > the
>> > > > > > > old protocol) even if we change the request version id in the
>> > > future.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Yes, this is true. Also, the GSS API library will throw an
>> > exception
>> > > if
>> > > > > the
>> > > > > > first byte is not 0x60 (for the case where newer clients connect
>> to
>> > > > older
>> > > > > > brokers):
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> https://github.com/frohoff/jdk8u-dev-jdk/blob/master/src/share/classes/sun/security/jgss/GSSHeader.java#L97
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > And the DEFECTIVE_TOKEN status code is specified in both RFC
>> > 2743[1]
>> > > > and
>> > > > > > RFC 5653[2]. Section 3.1 of RFC 2743 specifies that the token tag
>> > > > > consists
>> > > > > > of the following elements, in order:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > 1. 0x60 -- Tag for [APPLICATION 0] SEQUENCE; indicates that
>> > > > > >       -- constructed form, definite length encoding follows.
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > 2. Token length octets ...
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Ismael
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > [1] Generic Security Service Application Program Interface
>> Version
>> > 2,
>> > > > > > Update 1: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2743
>> > > > > > [2] Generic Security Service API Version 2: Java Bindings Update:
>> > > > > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5653
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Ismael
>> > > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > --
>> > > > > Regards,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Rajini
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Rajini
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Rajini

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