Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > > On 20-Oct-06, at 5:10 PM, Marcus Boerger wrote: > >> Hello Ilia, >> >> also an ISO/shared server will never be securewhatever you do and >> you can >> make MySQL disaalow external connections. That basically means in those >> scenarios you do not need any authentication at all and thus get better >> speed as in more responses. Now is that bad? > > It is not, the only idea is that while your servers maybe secure, > however you may not entirely trust your datacenter, so encryption of the > data would protect you against man-in-the-middle attacks.
This isn't philosophical, privacy regulations in many industries now mandate all tiered solutions use encryption between every network attached box, no matter if it's hiding behind the DMZ or not. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
