SSL connections with MySQLdb

[Greg Fortune]

Yup, some time ago, but I've got too many different kind of machines to 
protect to make this a desirable solution if I can get the encryption done 
by MySQL directly.  The patch is only about 4 lines long and very 
straightforward, so if it works like I expect, I'll just need to install a 
new MySQLdb on each of my clients and I can easily flip encryption on and 
off.  Thanks for the suggestion though.

Greg

<snip> 
> Perhaps not the type of answer you're looking for, but have you
> considered using stunnel? Which is an open source proxy which
> secures socket connections between clients and servers, even if
> the clients and servers are not SSL aware.
> 
> http://www.stunnel.org/
> 
> The precise use case you mention, encrypting MySQL client-server
> comms, is explicitly described on the web site.
> 
> http://www.stunnel.org/examples/mysql.html
> 
> Might save you some complexity?
> 
> HTH,
>