MySQL - Setting Up ODBC and SSL

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Database encryption is an important security measure and with SSL we can ensure end to end encryption.

1 Step 1: Get Open SSL onto the database server.

Open SSL is free and can be downloaded from the following link http://www.openssl.org/. Once this is installed add it to your system variables path. This can be done as follows:

  • Right click my computer
  • Go to properties
  • Then advanced system settings
  • next click environment variables
  • add to the path: C:\OpenSSL-Win64\bin; or similar depending on your system.


2 Step 2: Create the certs