I wrote a KIP for my minimal suggested change to support reading a truststore from the classpath as well as from a file.
The KIP is available here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-398%3A+Support+reading+trust+store+from+classpath <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-398:+Support+reading+trust+store+from+classpath> Any feedback or comments would be most welcome. Cheers Noa