Implement PARSEC auth for mysqlnd
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Description
Description
MariaDB 11.8 added the PARSEC (Password Authentication using Response Signed with Elliptic Curve) authentication plugin.
See
Authentication Plugin Added: PARSEC
PARSEC can be seen as an enhancement of the ED25519 authentication plugin. There is already a feature request for ED25519:
#14258
Currently the PARSEC authentication is unsupported in PHP mysqlnd:
mysqli_sql_exception: The server requested authentication method unknown to the client [parsec] in parsec-connect.php on line 20
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the PARSEC authentication description linked in the issue and reproduce the failure using parsec-connect.php at line 20. Compare the requested support with the existing ED25519 feature request (#14258); done means PHP mysqlnd accepts MariaDB's parsec authentication instead of reporting an unknown authentication method.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, mariadb, php
- Domain
- authentication, database
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100