Activating TLS on your mosquitto (and Owntracks)

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

I posted a related tutorial on how to configure Openhab to connect to an MQTT broker with ssl/tls:

MQTT Binding and SSL

MQTT Binding and SSL Purpose Until the MQTT binding 2.0 comes along, we have to do with the 1.9 version. Unfortunately this binding, despite having the ssl option is not able to implement it. I will show how to create your own ssl certificate and key, how to use keytool to create a keystore and a truststore for private and public keys for Java and finally how to modify the OpenHAB configuration to load these keys to enable ssl. Prerequisites The MQTT Binding is installed and running openHAB is …