.. _confluentsecurityplugins_kafaka_rest_security_plugin:

|crest-long| Security Plugin
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|commercial|

|crest-long| allows producing and consuming messages through a REST interface. The security
plugin adds the capability to authenticate the incoming request, build the principal and then
propagate the same to the requests to |ak-tm| using the configured security mechanism. The
authorization is enforced through |ak| ACLs.

.. note:: The |crest-long| Security plugin and ACLs does not work with the V1 consumer API's since it
 uses a simple consumer which doesn't support |ak| Security.

.. toctree::

    quickstart
    principal_propagation