title: SSL Connection Error while using MySQL Connector with Python
body: <p>I'm using Python 3.6 (but I get the same error with Python 2.7) and mysql-connector-python in an Anaconda's environment to code a simple script to access my database hosted in Hostgator. This is the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/home/usuario/anaconda3/envs/fakebook/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mysql/connector/connection_cext.py", line 176, in _open_connection
      self._cmysql.connect(**cnx_kwargs)
  _mysql_connector.MySQLInterfaceError: SSL connection error: SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh failed
  
  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "teste.py", line 6, in &lt;module&gt;
      passwd="senha"
    File "/home/usuario/anaconda3/envs/fakebook/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mysql/connector/__init__.py", line 172, in connect
      return CMySQLConnection(*args, **kwargs)
    File "/home/usuario/anaconda3/envs/fakebook/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mysql/connector/connection_cext.py", line 78, in __init__
      self.connect(**kwargs)
    File "/home/usuario/anaconda3/envs/fakebook/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mysql/connector/abstracts.py", line 731, in connect
      self._open_connection()
    File "/home/usuario/anaconda3/envs/fakebook/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mysql/connector/connection_cext.py", line 179, in _open_connection
      sqlstate=exc.sqlstate)
  mysql.connector.errors.InterfaceError: 2026 (HY000): SSL connection error: SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh failed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My code is very simple, it just try to connect to the database:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import mysql.connector
  
  mydb = mysql.connector.connect(
      host="192.xxx.xxx.xx",
      user="root",
      passwd="senha"
  )
  
  print(mydb)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've used this library several times on other computers, I've also connected to this same database through my computer, using the same library and it always worked with this code. I tried with MySQL Workbench and seems it is connecting to the database using the same credentials that are in my code. I've already tried to ask help to the server support, my IP is allowed to access the database and even so I can't connect with Python. I tried to reinstall the library, but nothing changed. </p>
  
  <p>Thank you everyone!</p>