Thanks. We use the encryption approach as well. But the 2 topic approach is unique. Thank you.
Kashyap. On Nov 12, 2014 1:54 AM, "Joe Stein" <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote: > I know a few implements that do this "encrypt your messages with a PSK > between producers and consumers". One of them actually writes the > "encrypted <symmetric key>" on a different topic foreach downstream > consumer private key that can read the message. This way when you are > consuming you consume from two topics 1) the topic with the message (which > is encrypted) you want 2) the topic that you can use your private key > to decrypt (because your public key was used) the symmetric key and then > use that to decrypt the message (which you join from the two streams by the > uuid so each message has a different secrete key encrypted with your public > key).... The other ones I can't talk about =8^) but this one I mention is > interesting solution to this problem with Kafka I really like. > > /******************************************* > Joe Stein > Founder, Principal Consultant > Big Data Open Source Security LLC > http://www.stealth.ly > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> > ********************************************/ > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Mathias Herberts < > mathias.herbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Simply encrypt your messages with a PSK between producers and consumers. > > On Nov 12, 2014 4:38 AM, "Kashyap Mhaisekar" <kashya...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Is there a way to secure the topics created in Kafka 0.8.2 beta? The > need > > > is to ensure no one is asked to read data from the topic without > > > authorization. > > > > > > Regards > > > Kashyap > > > > > >
