I cannot receive an SSL certificate for an ODBC database connection between my local machine and my hosting service. If I know my network is secure and my hosting service's network is secure, how worried should I be about data being intercepted between our two connections? In this situation is there any other way to retrieve data securely?
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This is pretty much the perfect use case for SSH. Set up a tunnel and then make a connection that way. Here's a tutorial for an ODBC connection from Windows to MySQL.
John Feminella
2010-01-04 01:59:42
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Hard to say without knowing what you mean by yours and your provider's network being secure. If you are not transferring over some sort of encrypted connection (such as ssl), it would be possible for your communication to be captured - of course depending on where the traffic is.
Otávio Décio
2010-01-04 02:00:07