If you are like me and you spend chilly spring evenings relaxing
by the fire, reading the manual for the upcoming MySQL 8 release,
you may have seen Caching SHA-2 Pluggable
Authentication in section 6.5.1.3.
There are now TWO SHA-256 plugsins for MySQL 8 for hashing user
account passwords and no, I do not know what the title of the
manual pages says SHA-2 when it is SHA-256. We have
sha256_password for basic SHA-256 authentication
and caching_sha2_password that adds
caching for better performance.
The default plugin is caching_sha2_password has
three features not found in its non caching brother. The first
is, predictably, a cache for faster authentication for repeat
customers to the database. Next is a RSA-based password exchange
that is independent of the SSL library you executable is linked.
And it supports Unix socket-files and shared-memory …
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