MySQL Connector/Python

pluggable 2 way encryption

Asked by jorgen jorgensen

Hi Geert.

I have not yet looked into the source, but I would like to ask you the following question:
How hard would it be to install two way encryption in the library in one of the following two ways or does something already exist:

1) Every value inserted into the database are encrypted on the client, so that anybody sniffing the traffic would have a very very hard time getting hold of account numbers and such.

2) Every statement is encrypted before being sent to the database and the database similarly encrypts the resultsets for the client to decrypt.

obviously 2 is better than 1 - however is it doable?

My reason for asking is that i should send moderately sensitive data over unencrypted channels.

kind regards jorgen

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Geert JM Vanderkelen (geertjmvdk) said : 		#1

We'll support SSL support at some point. Currently I'm refactoring/fixing the connection classes to allow this (and other goodies) in future versions.

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