Status

Current state: Under DiscussionDISCARDED

Discussion thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@kafka.apache.org/msg99126.html

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Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

Discard Reason

The discussion on this KIP lead us to create KIP-519: Make SSL context/engine configuration extensible which is in ACCEPTED state now and this particular KIP is not needed anymore.

Motivation

Current Kafka versions supports file based KeyStore and TrustStore via ssl.keystore.location and ssl.truststore.location configurations along with required passwords configurations.

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