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MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287815
Pages 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
1. Lightweight Messaging with MQTT 3.1.1 and Mosquitto 2. Securing an MQTT Mosquitto Server 3. Controlling a Drone with Python 4. Interacting with Sensors in Java 5. Controlling Home Automation in JavaScript 6. Interacting with Actuators in Swift Exersise Answers

Configuring TLS client certificate authentication in Mosquitto


Now, we will configure Mosquitto to use TLS client certificate authentication. This way, any client will require the ca.crt file and a client certificate to establish a communication with the Mosquitto server.

In case you are running the Mosquitto server in a Terminal window in macOS or Linux, press CtrlC to stop it. In Windows, stop the appropriate service.

Go to the Mosquitto installation directory and open the mosquitto.conf configuration file.

In macOS, Linux. or Windows, add the following lines at the end of the configuration file:

require_certificate true 

We specified the true value for the require_certificate option to make Mosquitto require a valid client certificate for any client that requests a connection to Mosquitto.

Save the changes to the mosquitto.conf configuration file and launch Mosquitto again. We will use the mosquitto_sub command-line utility included in Mosquitto to generate a simple MQTT client that subscribes...

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