Post-Quantum Blockchain-Based Data Sharing for IoT Service Providers

Abstract

Quantum technologies have made significant advances and are likely to lead to important security challenges and threats to networks in the near future. On the other hand, sharing the huge amount of data from the Internet of Things (IoT) in the context of data as a service could provide new revenue streams for infrastructure providers and service providers. However, post-quantum computing exposes the entire data sharing ecosystem to a new set of security risks. In this article, we propose a novel blockchain-based system for data sharing in the post-quantum era. The proposed system facilitates data sharing among multiple organizations while meeting compliance and regulatory requirements via private blockchain. We implemented the proposed architecture and information flow using three blockchain networks (namely Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum, and Quorum) and selected NTRU as our quantum resistant security algorithm (QRSA) to compare the parallelization performance of Toom-Cook's and Karatsuba's computation methods. Experimental results show that parallel computation has a positive impact when the security level of QRSAs is lowered, and the transaction time savings is almost 50 percent in favor of Quorum. Finally, we outline the main challenges and potential solutions.