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Mike Hillyer wrote:
> Plain text. Use of the upcoming MyODBC 3.52 will make it in binary form,
> but not encrypted. Is the remote server MySQL 4.x? You could possibly
> use Stunnel (www.stunnel.org) to access the server via SSL.
>
The MySQL protocol sends the _username_ in plain text, but in all
versions of the protocol, the password is _never_ sent, just a hash of
the password combined with a 'seed' that was sent from the server when
the client connected.
-Mark
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