Update MQTT broker setup steps (#1215)

* Update MQTT broker setup in FreeRTOS-Plus/Demo/coreMQTT_Windows_Simulator/MQTT_Multitask/mqtt_broker_setup.txt

* Minor fix

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Co-authored-by: Gaurav-Aggarwal-AWS <33462878+aggarg@users.noreply.github.com>
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Tony Josi 9 months ago committed by GitHub
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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ TLS mutual authentication for use with this MQTT demo.
a. Download and install [Git For Windows](https://git-scm.com/download/win).
Most of you may already have this installed. Git For Windows provides an
OpenSSL binary for generating certificates.
b. Open PowerShell and enter the following commands to generate TLS certificates:
b. Open PowerShell and enter the following commands to generate TLS certificates [Note: While creating the certificates make sure to not use same organization name for all the certificates to prevent "self-signed certificate" error.]:
i. cd "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin" # If Git is installed elsewhere, update the path.
ii. mkdir $home\Documents\certs
iii. .\openssl.exe req -x509 -nodes -sha256 -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout $home\Documents\certs\ca.key -out $home\Documents\certs\ca.crt
@ -13,16 +13,19 @@ TLS mutual authentication for use with this MQTT demo.
vi. .\openssl.exe genrsa -out $home\Documents\certs\client.key 2048
vii. .\openssl.exe req -new -out $home\Documents\certs\client.csr -key $home\Documents\certs\client.key
viii. .\openssl.exe x509 -req -in $home\Documents\certs\client.csr -CA $home\Documents\certs\ca.crt -CAkey $home\Documents\certs\ca.key -CAcreateserial -out $home\Documents\certs\client.crt -days 365
ix. [Optional] .\openssl.exe verify -CAfile $home\Documents\certs\ca.crt $home\Documents\certs\server.crt # verify the server certificate is correctly signed
x. [Optional] .\openssl.exe verify -CAfile $home\Documents\certs\ca.crt $home\Documents\certs\client.crt # verify the client certificate is correctly signed
2. Download Mosquitto from https://mosquitto.org/download/
3. Install Mosquitto as a Windows service by running the installer.
4. Go to the path where Mosquitto was installed. The default path is C:\Program Files\mosquitto.
5. Update mosquitto.conf to have the following entries and don't forget to substitute your Windows username:
port 8883
5. Update mosquitto.conf to have the following entries and don't forget to substitute your Windows username [Mosquitto Version 2.0.0 onwards]:
listener 8883
cafile C:\Users\%Substitute Windows username%\Documents\certs\ca.crt
certfile C:\Users\%Substitute Windows username%\Documents\certs\server.crt
keyfile C:\Users\%Substitute Windows username%\Documents\certs\server.key
require_certificate true
tls_version tlsv1.2
allow_anonymous true
6. Start the Mosquitto service.
More details about running Mosquitto as a Windows service can be found at
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/blob/master/readme-windows.txt and

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