Providing SASL authentication
The Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for providing authentication and data security services in connection-oriented protocols via replaceable mechanisms according to the official SASL protocol specification. SASL specifies the structured interface between protocols and mechanisms. As SASL is a framework on top of the other frameworks, we can use SASL into SMTP, LDAP, XMPP, and other communication protocols. SASL provides the abstraction layer for each of the communication protocols, as shown in the following image:
Figure 8.2: SASL framework
RabbitMQ has a plugin to support SASL authentication ...
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