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Mastering Internet of Things

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788397483
Pages 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Peter Waher Peter Waher
Profile icon Peter Waher
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Preparing Our First Raspberry Pi Project 2. Creating a Sensor to Measure Ambient Light 3. Creating an Actuator for Controlling Illumination 4. Publishing Information Using MQTT 5. Publishing Data Using HTTP 6. Creating Web Pages for Your Devices 7. Communicating More Efficiently Using CoAP 8. Interoperability 9. Social Interaction with Your Devices Using XMPP 10. The Controller 11. Product Life Cycle 12. Concentrators and Bridges 13. Using an Internet of Things Service Platform 14. IoT Harmonization 15. Security for the Internet of Things 16. Privacy 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Checking encrypted communication


If you're interested in what is being communicated, you normally use a network sniffer, or network protocol analyzer. One of the better ones is called Wireshark (https://www.wireshark.org/). But external sniffers, or network protocol analyzers, have, for obvious reasons, difficulty monitoring encrypted communication. You are left with two options: either you turn off encryption while you use the external tool to examine your communication, or you monitor the communication internally before it is encrypted or after it has been decrypted.

Which method to use depends on the use case. It might be necessary to retain encryption, or something in the communication chain will not work, or work differently. In this case, you are left with only one option: you need to monitor the communication internally.

To facilitate this, the MqttClient class accepts a set of sniffer objects. These are objects implementing the ISniffer interface, defined in the Waher.Networking.Sniffers...

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