# Asking for help with public MQTT brokers - which one?

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/asking-for-help-with-public-mqtt-brokers-which-one/66987
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**Created:** [26 August 2022 22:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/asking-for-help-with-public-mqtt-brokers-which-one/66987 "2022-08-26T22:35:24Z")
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#### Post date: [27 August 2022 06:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/asking-for-help-with-public-mqtt-brokers-which-one/66987/5 "2022-08-27T06:25:55Z")

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Thanks all.

Setting up a VM and then doing Node-Red and mosquitto.... Over my skill set.

In the mean time I have been _getting away_ with using hive to do preliminary testing and it works simply be subscribing to the topic here and getting my device to publish to the topic using `hive` and all is good.

That seems **too easy** to be true.

The next question is encryption. It isn't that I need it, but I would be leaving the door wide open for fake injections and cause havoc if misused.

I've **NEVER** used it before and so it begs the question: Is the encryption done only at the ends or does the broker need to be included in the equation?

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