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Hacking a box of 240×320 displays with the ESP8266
For the last few days, I have been playing with some small displays we have lying around in Labitat. We have ninety-odd of them from an old donation, and I…
Hacking a box of 240×320 displays with the ESP8266
For the last few days, I have been playing with some small displays we have lying around in Labitat. We have ninety-odd of them from an old donation, and I…
MariaDB 10.2 GA released with several advanced features
MariaDB 10.2.6 GA is now released. It’s a release where we have concentrated on adding new advanced features to MariaDB The most noteworthy ones are: Windows Functions gives you the…
MariaDB 10.2 GA released with several advanced features
MariaDB 10.2.6 GA is now released. It’s a release where we have concentrated on adding new advanced features to MariaDB The most noteworthy ones are: Windows Functions gives you the…
Improving replication with multiple storage engines
New MariaDB/MySQL storage engines such as MyRocks and TokuDB have renewed interest in using engines other than InnoDB. This is great, but also presents new challenges. In this article, I…
Improving replication with multiple storage engines
New MariaDB/MySQL storage engines such as MyRocks and TokuDB have renewed interest in using engines other than InnoDB. This is great, but also presents new challenges. In this article, I…
MySQL and SSL/TLS Performance
In conversations about SSL/TLS people often say that they either don’t need TLS because they trust their network or they say it is too slow to be used in production.…
MySQL and SSL/TLS Performance
In conversations about SSL/TLS people often say that they either don’t need TLS because they trust their network or they say it is too slow to be used in production.…
MariaDB 10.3-alpha released
While most of the MariaDB developers have been working hard on getting MariaDB 10.2 out as GA, a small team, including me, has been working on the next release, MariaDB…
MariaDB 10.3-alpha released
While most of the MariaDB developers have been working hard on getting MariaDB 10.2 out as GA, a small team, including me, has been working on the next release, MariaDB…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 6: Loose ends
Backup traffic After securing application-to-database and replication traffic, you should also do the same for backup traffic. If you use Percona XtraBackup with streaming than you should use SSH to…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 6: Loose ends
Backup traffic After securing application-to-database and replication traffic, you should also do the same for backup traffic. If you use Percona XtraBackup with streaming than you should use SSH to…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 5: Attack on SHA256 based passwords
The mysql_sha256_password doesn’t use the nonce system which is used for mysql_new_password, but instead forces the use of RSA or SSL. This is how that works: The client connects The…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 5: Attack on SHA256 based passwords
The mysql_sha256_password doesn’t use the nonce system which is used for mysql_new_password, but instead forces the use of RSA or SSL. This is how that works: The client connects The…
Network attacks on MySQL, Part 4: SSL hostnames
In my previous blogs I told you to enable SSL/TLS and configure it to check the CA. So I followed my advice and did all that. Great! So the –ssl-mode…