Post-Quantum Based Oblivious Transfer for Authentication in Heterogeneous Internet of Everything

Quantum security in multi-party authentication is a critical aspect to be addressed in Internet of Everything (IoE), especially when considering the possible future network attacks by the usage of quantum computers. To ensure an invulnerable multi-party computation, the Post-quantum based Oblivious Transfer for authentication in heterogeneous internet of everything Systems (POTS) protocol proposed in this paper integrates 1-out-n oblivious transfer along with the post-quantum encryption to preserve the network from suspicious parties during communication. The protocol further intends to evaluate resilience by considering various metrics namely, hit ratio, execution time and memory consumption, in order to attain considerable accuracy in an IoE environment. The POTS protocol achieves an execution time of 66.69 seconds, device memory consumption of 131.95 MB and hit ratio of 20.46% for the session size of 300.