Shoulder Surfers Beware: Confluent Now Provides Cross-Platform Secret Protection

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Compliance requirements often dictate that services should not store secrets as cleartext in files. These secrets may include passwords, such as the values for ssl.key.password, ssl.keystore.password, and ssl.truststore.password configuration parameters […]

https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-security-secret-encryption-with-confluent