From: Date: February 16 2001 10:21am
Subject: Re: Secure SQL connection ?
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Quoting Denis Bucher <dbucher@stripped>:

> Is it possible to have a secure (crypted) connection between the client
> and 
> mySQL ?

All that's currently available is the option
mysql_compression, which uses libz. It should be
relatively easy to add comparable things as long as no
key handshaking or something similar is required.

An option would be using the DBI proxy, which supports
encryption. It comes as part of DBI.


Bye,

Jochen