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 > > >
