[go-nuts] golang & sasl?

Vitess uses SASL. You can see our implementation
here: https://github.com/youtube/vitess/tree/master/go/rpcwrap/auth.
rpcwrap builds a handshake protocol using the auth package for rpc
authentication.
Note that we use rpcplus, which is backward compatible with go's rpc, but
also supports streaming and passing client context info.

Thanks Sugu.

Looks like vitess impl currently supports only CRAM-MD5, I'm interested in a few more - happy to contribute.

Also, I have my own RPC system, would it be of interest if I could re-factor vitess/rpcwrap/auth to support other RPC systems?

Along same lines, would there be interest in taking that back in as a go module itself rather than stay in vitess?

thanks,
Arun

Definitely welcome.

I see decent amount of rpc specific code there. I wonder how much will be
left if you separated that part out. But I (we) will be open to hearing you
out. You can either start a discussion on vitess@googlegroups.com, or send
a pull request.

Vitess has many generic packages. Practically, everything here
https://github.com/youtube/vitess/tree/master/go except vt is generic (some
are deprecated). But they were built for vitess. So, they may not be
well-rounded enough to be used by the masses. What goes into go needs to be
crafted very carefully because you can't freely change the API once it's
committed.
Otherwise, yes. Anything that's useful, generic and robust can be submitted
for consideration.