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Install and Secure the Mosquitto MQTT Messaging Broker on Ubuntu 20.04

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Mar 23, 2022

Mosquitto is an open-source message broker that uses the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) Protocol. The protocol is designed to provide lightweight communication to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this tutorial, you will install Mosquitto and set up the broker to use SSL to protect communications.

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