Hello, @bart8769261ebbd5ac990ff3e2

The server’s certificate and key pair are enough to provide encryption for incoming connections. You need to have the ssl key and certificate in order to connect to the database.

However, you aren’t yet fully leveraging the trust relationship that a certificate authority can provide. By distributing the CA certificate to clients — as well as the client certificate and key — both parties can provide proof that their certificates were signed by a mutually trusted certificate authority. This can help prevent spoofed connections from malicious servers.

In order to implement this extra, optional safeguard, we will transfer the appropriate SSL files to the client machine, create a client configuration file, and alter the remote MySQL user to require a trusted certificate.

In MySQL Workbench you can import the SSL files in the SSL Configuration - Setting SSL tab and simply upload the SSL KEY, SSL CERT and the SSL CA CERT files.

Let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Alex