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Hands-On Internet of Things with MQTT

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341782
Pages 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Tim Pulver Tim Pulver
Profile icon Tim Pulver

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits About Packt Contributors Preface The Internet of Things in a Nutshell Basic Architecture of an IoT Prototype Getting Started with MQTT Setting Up a Lab Environment Building Your Own Automatic Pet Food Dispenser Building a Smart E-Ink To-Do List Building a Smart Productivity Cube, Part 1 Building a Smart Productivity Cube, Part 2 Presenting Your Own Prototype Assessments Other Books You May Enjoy

Analyzing the security of MQTT servers

There are four major ways to communicate with MQTT servers: MQTT, secure MQTT, MQTT over WebSockets, and MQTT over secure WebSockets. WebSockets are typically used when websites communicate with an MQTT server on the frontend.

Let's talk about the secure element in secure MQTT and secure WebSockets.

This book is all about prototyping: trying things out and failing (or succeeding) fast. For this, we don't care too much about security, as properly securing our prototypes would increase complexity and require more time. But, we should understand how to establish a basic level of security, and know when basic security is not enough.

SSL/TSL

When using secure MQTT, or secure MQTT over WebSockets...

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