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Mastering Internet of Things

By : Peter Waher
Book Image

Mastering Internet of Things

By: Peter Waher

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. Mastering Internet of Things starts by presenting IoT fundamentals and the smart city. You will learn the important technologies and protocols that are used for the Internet of Things, their features, corresponding security implications, and practical examples on how to use them. This book focuses on creating applications and services for the Internet of Things. Further, you will learn to create applications and services for the Internet of Things. You will be discover various interesting projects and understand how to publish sensor data, control devices, and react to asynchronous events using the XMPP protocol. The book also introduces chat, to interact with your devices. You will learn how to automate your tasks by using Internet of Things Service Platforms as the base for an application. You will understand the subject of privacy, requirements they should be familiar with, and how to avoid violating any of the important new regulations being introduced. At the end of the book, you will have mastered creating open, interoperable and secure networks of things, protecting the privacy and integrity of your users and their information.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
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...