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A theoretically question:
I have a C# Windows Form app, that sends back some user submitted data to an external mySQL server on the internet.
How do I prevent people from seeing the username and password for the mySQL server? (Eg. by decompiling the C# exe program).
Best regards
Short answer: you can’t – anything that runs on a machine you don’t control can be decompiled etc.
Possible option:
You might try an approach with a SSL-secured webservice on server-side which authenticated clients via client-cert (part of SSL standard). That webservice would be accessing the DB on behalf of the clients. you can then secure the connection between webservice and DB network-wise…