Oracle recently announced a new authentication plugin:
caching_sha2_password. This was added in 8.0.4, the second release candidate for MySQL
8.0. The new plugin is also made the default (can be configured
by changing default_authentication_plugin.
Why? Phasing out SHA1
As Oracle said in the blog post to annouce this change they want to move to a more secure hashing algorithm (SHA256). Which I think is a good reason to do this.
Adding salt
Adding a …
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