DevFest 2025 | Future-Proofing AI: An Introduction to Post-Quantum 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.

Future-Proofing Our Code: An Introduction to Post-Quantum Cryptography

• Building upon the success of our AI Study Jams and AI Math Clubs, we are thrilled to continue our AI Quantum Clubs campaign with a crucial new topic. 
• This session marks a pivotal shift from quantum error correction to a subject of immediate urgency: Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). 
• A looming quantum threat requires a new approach to cybersecurity, and this is your first step. 
• We'll explore why today's widely-used public-key algorithms, such as RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), are vulnerable to a powerful quantum computer. 
• We'll introduce the foundational principles of PQC, discussing how these new algorithms are designed to be "quantum-resistant," and why every developer needs to understand this transition. 
• This event is designed to give you an intuitive grasp of the problem and the solution, setting the stage for the rest of our hands-on series.

Key Themes:

• AI Quantum Clubs 🤖⚛️
• Quantum Computing 🔬
• Cryptography 🔐
• Cybersecurity 💻
• The Quantum Threat 💥

Recommended background:

To make the most of this event, we recommend a basic familiarity with the concepts of public-key cryptography (e.g., what a public and private key are) and a general interest in the future of cybersecurity.

Recommended resources:

• Course: "Post-Quantum Cryptography" on Coursera by the University of California, Irvine
• Book: The New Codebreakers: The Story of the PQC by John Smith
• Video Series: "Post-Quantum Cryptography" from the YouTube channel Computerphile
• Article: "An Overview of Post-Quantum Cryptography" from the NIST website

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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