This blog post looks at SSL connections and how they work in MySQL 5.7.
Recently I was working on an SSL implementation with MySQL 5.7, and I made some interesting discoveries. I realized I could connect to the MySQL server without specifying the SSL keys on the client side, and the connection is still secured by SSL. I was confused and I did not understand what was happening.
In this blog post, I am going to show you why SSL works in MySQL 5.7, and it worked previously in MySQL 5.6.
Let’s start with an introduction of how SSL worked in 5.6.
SSL in MySQL 5.6
The documentation for SSL in MySQL 5.6 is quite detailed, and it explains how SSL works. But first let’s make one thing …
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