DevFest 2025 | Building Quantum-Resilient Systems with Hybrid Cryptography🔀

DevFest 2025: Building Safe, Secure and Scalable Solutions with AI and Cloud.

This year, DevFest 2025 will empower developer communities worldwide to architect the future. We'll focus on driving the practical integration of AI and Google Cloud into their solutions. Our goal is to equip developers with the skills to build innovative, scalable, and ethically sound applications, acknowledging their pivotal role in shaping a technology-driven future that benefits everyone.

Building Quantum-Resilient Systems with Hybrid Cryptography 

• With new algorithms comes new uncertainty. 
• The most prudent and widely recommended approach for the PQC transition is hybrid cryptography. 
• This technique combines a traditional, battle-tested algorithm with a new PQC algorithm. 
• This "belt-and-suspenders" approach ensures that even if the new PQC algorithm is found to be vulnerable, the connection remains secure due to the classical algorithm. 
• This hands-on session will walk you through a conceptual implementation of hybrid cryptography. 
• We'll demonstrate how to combine a traditional key exchange (like ECDH) with a PQC key exchange (like ML-KEM) to create a robust, future-proof communication channel. 
• This session is designed to give you the practical knowledge to start planning your own hybrid deployments.

Key Themes:

• Hybrid Cryptography 🤝
• Transitional Strategies ➡️
• Implementation Best Practices ✅
• Secure Communication 🔒

Recommended background: 

Attendance at Events 1 and 2 is highly recommended. A basic understanding of key exchange protocols is assumed.

Recommended Resources

• Protecting Your Data: Post-Quantum Cryptography Explained (video) - A great video that explains the threat of quantum computing and the need for PQC. It's a good primer before diving into the technical details of the session.
• Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Good, the Bad, and the Powerful (video) - A video from NIST explaining the process of developing new encryption standards that are resistant to quantum attacks.
• Post-Quantum Cryptography in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (article) - A technical article that explains how hybrid key exchange is being implemented in a real-world system using ML-KEM. This provides practical context for the concepts we'll be discussing.

What is AI Quantum Clubs?

Building upon the foundations of our AI Study Jams and AI Math Clubs, the AI Quantum Clubs campaign is designed to explore the crucial and rapidly evolving world of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).

This initiative focuses on equipping developers and enthusiasts with the knowledge to understand and address the looming quantum threat to our digital security. We will provide a clear, intuitive path to learning about new quantum-resistant algorithms and how to implement them in a way that future-proofs our code and infrastructure.

Let's learn together! Strengthen your skills and take the next step on your journey to becoming a future-ready developer.

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