protected String toMessage(byte[] messageBytes) {
            return new String(messageBytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
        }
SCRAM request/response message creation and parsing based on
<a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5802">RFC 5802</a>
clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/security/scram/internals/ScramMessages.java