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MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

You're reading from   MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol The preferred IoT publish-subscribe lightweight messaging protocol

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287815
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gastón C. Hillar Gastón C. Hillar
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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 FREE CHAPTER 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

Forcing the TLS protocol version


It is a good practice to use the highest possible TLS protocol version. By default, Mosquitto accepts TLS 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2. If all the clients are capable of working with the highest TLS protocol version supported by Mosquitto, we should force Mosquitto to use only the highest version. This way, we make sure that we won't be vulnerable to attacks to the previous TLS versions.

Now, we will make the necessary changes in the configuration file to force the usage of TLS 1.2. In case you are running the Mosquitto server in a Terminal window in macOS or Linux, press Ctrl+C 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:

    tls_version tlsv1.2 

We specified the tlsv1.2 value for the tls_version option to make Mosquitto work only with TLS 1.2. Any client that uses an earlier TLS version...

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