SSL connections with MySQLdb
Greg Fortune
lists at gregfortune.com
Fri May 16 11:14:43 EDT 2003
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,
>
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