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Industrial and research organizations expect that tens of billions of daily life objects can communicate with each other in the near future for realizing a hyper connected society that is called Internet of Things (IoT). They also agree that security is one of the most important concerns to provide smart and intelligent services successfully in the IoT. The author notes in this paper that the first step towards a secure IoT is the initial configuration of connected objects and networks in a secure fashion. As a solution, this paper proposes a secure configuration (i.e., bootstrapping) scheme for resource constrained devices such as sensors or actuators. The scheme is activated when a new object (or node) initially installs and re-installs to a network that is currently in operation. The method is suitable for a scenario, where resource constrained small things are interconnected with each other and thus formed Internet of Things.