Internet of things security with multi-party computation (mpc)

An IoT network for establishing a peer-to-peer communication along a communications channel between a plurality of devices, wherein the plurality of devices comprise:

• a transmitter for transmitting messages along the communications channel to one or more of the other ones of the plurality of devices;
• a receiver for receiving messages from the communications channel from one or more of the other ones of the plurality of devices;
• an identifier file for storing a secret session keys computed using symmetric keys for the communications channel between one or more of the other ones of the plurality of devices;
• a multi-party computation (MPC) module is adapted to receive a first authentication string (SAS) and to receive a second authentication string (SAS) from one of the plurality of devices over the communications channel and confirming the security of the communications channel by evaluating the first SAS in a second MPC of one of the plurality of devices and a second SAS in the first MPC in one of the plurality of devices;
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• a communications module for encrypting and decrypting messages to and from the communications channel using the computed secret session key and for exchanging the encrypted messages along the communications channel.