Best of Cryptography — November 2025

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    Avatar of allthingsdistributedAll Things Distributed·22w

    Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond

    Five major technology predictions for 2026 and beyond: companion robots will combat the global loneliness epidemic through emotional AI, particularly for elderly and pediatric care; developers will evolve into renaissance polymaths who combine technical skills with domain expertise as AI handles code generation; quantum computing advances are compressing security timelines, requiring immediate post-quantum cryptography deployment across infrastructure; defense technology innovation cycles are accelerating from decades to years, with dual-use systems reaching civilian applications faster; and AI-powered personalized education will democratize one-on-one tutoring at scale, adapting to individual learning styles while freeing teachers from administrative tasks.

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    Avatar of nodejsNode.js·23w

    Node.js — Node.js v25.2.1 (Current)

    Node.js v25.2.1 has been released, reverting a spec-compliant behavior change that threw errors on localStorage access. The team determined this breaking change was too disruptive for a semver-minor release and postponed it to version 26.0.0. The release includes fixes for RSA-PSS saltLength defaults in crypto, a V8 backport, and clarifications on the experimental status of Web Storage support.

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    Avatar of dotnet.NET Blog·23w

    Post-Quantum Cryptography in .NET

    .NET 10 introduces post-quantum cryptography support with four new algorithms: ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, and Composite ML-DSA. The implementation breaks from the traditional AsymmetricAlgorithm base class pattern, introducing a new design where instances represent keys rather than algorithms, with improved disposal semantics and extensive use of the Template Method Pattern. The new classes minimize code duplication in derived types, use Span-based APIs for performance, and include platform-specific implementations for Windows (CNG) and Linux (OpenSSL 3.5+). Integration extends to X.509 certificates, TLS 1.3, SignedCms, and COSE, though some methods remain experimental pending final specification publication.

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    Avatar of glwGolang Weekly·25w

    Golang Weekly Issue 577: November 5, 2025

    Go 1.21+ enables reproducible builds with byte-for-byte identical outputs, now with independent third-party verification for enhanced security. The Dolt database demonstrates dependency management patterns for large Go projects with 762k lines of code. Claude Code successfully debugged complex low-level cryptography issues in an ML-DSA post-quantum signature implementation. Recent releases include Crush 0.15 AI coding agent, Vitess 23.0 MySQL scaling system, and Lazygit 0.56 terminal UI.

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