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Get started with Matter IoT

For OEMs and product developers, in general, interested in exploring PKI and Certificate Authority solutions for implementing support for Matter IoT-compliant certificates, EJBCA will offer a hassle-free option to initiate the journey.

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In the Matter IoT specification, certificates are used to implement unique identities to ensure that only authenticated and certified devices are allowed to join the network.

With EJBCA, you can issue Matter IoT-compliant certificates for your smart home products, and it will scale as your solution grows in complexity.

How to get started

By setting up an EJBCA PKI to issue Matter-compliant certificates, vendors can ensure their IoT devices adhere to industry standards, communicate securely, and establish trust within the Matter IoT ecosystem. As an engineer, you can use our how-to guide and a tutorial video to start testing today and configuring EJBCA PKI for issuing certificates at various levels within the hierarchy. Follow our video tutorial or How to Guides, and you'll have an EJBCA instance and Matter IoT certificates for your test devices in no time.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a complete Matter IoT PKI and issue a certificate for the device:

  1. Root CA - Product Attestation Authority (PAA): Root CA that signs the certificates of the Product Attestation Intermediate (PAI).
  2. Sub CA -  Product Attestation Intermediate (PAI): Sub CA that issues Device Attestation Certificates (DACs).
  3. End Entity - Device Attestation Certificate (DAC): Matter standardized certificates issued for the IoT devices.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, you need the following:

  • Docker running in the background.
  • Additionally, OpenSSL is required for generating a key pair and a CSR. 

Remember to keep up with the latest Matter specifications and policies to maintain compliance and stay up to date.

 

Documentation

Tutorials/documentation

Documentation

Check out the supplementary documentation that goes hand-in-hand with our tutorial video.

Docker Hub

Get your hands on the EJBCA Docker container by downloading it now from Docker Hub.

YouTube

Take a peek at our tutorial video on YouTube, and browse through some of our other videos as well.

More information is available here

Learn more about Keyfactor's approach to Consumer IoT and Smart Home Security.

Discuss

You can ask your questions and learn from PKI specialists in the EJBCA forum on GitHub Discussions.

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