“cryptography is required for sha256_password or caching_sha2_password”

Question

Good day. Hope your all are well. Can someone help me with fix this?

I\'m new to the MySQL environment. I\'m trying to connect to MySQL Database remotely. I used th

Answer 1

For what it's worth, I had this problem today using MySQL via SQLAlchemy in Python. It turned out that I was using the wrong password for this account. In other words, if you have this problem, you might want to start by just confirming that you're using the correct password.

FWIW, I am not sure why this generated a cryptography message. Something buggy along the way?