Hi everyone !
I am enabling SASL/PLAIN authentication for our Kafka and I am aware it should
be used with SSL encryption. But it may bring a performance impact. So I am
wondering whether it is possible that we only use SSL to encrypt the
authentication messages but leave the data unencrypted.
There was a recent report about vulnerabilities of some dependent
libraries: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8952
I think we should fix this for 2.3.1.
Furthermore, we identified the root cause of
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8649 -- it seems to be a
critical issue beca