MySQL Bugs: #61644: SSL with .net using raw data

Bug #61644	SSL with .net using raw data
Submitted:	25 Jun 2011 13:38	Modified:	22 Jul 2011 16:04
Reporter:	wasseim al zouabi	Email Updates:
Status:	Not a Bug	Impact on me:	None
Category:	Connector / NET	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:		OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	Connector/Net, raw, SSL, X509

Description:
Dear developers,
searching around the web it seems to me that the windows format of pcks#12 isnt as secure as it seems ( please correct me if i am wrong) so i would feel alot safer embedding the certificate inside my application ( since i encyrpt and obfuscate it making it alot harder to earn access to the certificate).
i looked at the source code and it seems in nativedriver.cs u guys are calling
X509Certificate2 clientCert = new X509Certificate2((Settings.CertificateFile,
Settings.CertificatePassword);
the X509Certificate2 class can also take rawbytes with a password as an argument which means i could pass my certificate as bytes if the correct interface was provided.

please advice if there is a way to do that or wether it is meant to be done in future releases. further more , why dont u relieve urselves and us from the whole mess and just ask us to pass an x509 certificate to the connection??

cheers,
wasseim

How to repeat:
its a feature request 

Suggested fix:
please expose the x509 constructor to us so we can pass our own certificates ready with user name and password

anybody?

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dear Alexey Kishkin,
it is more of a feature request to make ssl connections more .net friendly.
thanks