“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

I also had this problem today using MySQL via SQLAlchemy in Python. It went away just by logging into the database via mysql -u root -p. Credit to @Ben for the hint. Something buggy may well be happening.