SASL support

[devonjones]

I would like to get end to end authentication in our application stack. Kestrel is a blocker for this. Memcached implemented SASL in about 2009: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/SASLAuthProtocol

Any chance you would consider adding SASL support? Java has a built in implementation, so accessing that from scala should be fairly easy: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/security/sasl/package-summary.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Authentication_and_Security_Layer

Thanks,
Devon Jones

[robey]

this might be easier to do in thrift.

[Teudimundo]

I'm using kestrel with apache camel that is based on memcached protocol. Is there any way to avoid having kestrel completely open to everyone that can access the host?