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
Create a directory on the C drive like C:\MySQLSSLCerts
Next you will need to open a command window as the admin of your machine/server. Right click on the the command window tool and select "Run as Administrator"
Run as follows and make absolutely sure the common name is different for each one.
openssl genrsa 2048 > "C:/MySQLSSLCert/ca-key.pem"
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -days 24800 -key "C:/MySQLSSLCert/ca-key.pem" > "C:/MySQLSSLCert/ca-cert.pem"
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