On 20-Oct-06, at 10:24 AM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

its funny that ext/mysql is supposed to stay around for BC reasons even in PHP6, yet it has known unsolvable security issues.
Such as?

for example, it does not support the new more secure authentication protocol.

Which matters little since you can connect to MySQL via SSH tunnel ensuring all communication is encrypted or communicate via a UNIX domain socket with a local MySQL server.

Ilia Alshanetsky

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