New authentication plugin: PARSEC
Presentation materials
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Abstract
MariaDB authentication has lived through several generations of improvements. The new version, that we called PARSEC, can work even over the compromised connection with man in the middle, also using more advanced hashing algorithms.
Nikita Maliavin
For the last 5 years I develop the MariaDB Server codebase. Before that I worked on video cameras firmware. Also I am a system programming teacher 😉