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Adding a post-quantum hybrid handshake to a Rust VPN (opens in new tab)

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I maintain Qeli, a self-hosted VPN whose core and server are written in Rust. For the 0.7.x line I added a hybrid post-quantum key exchange to the inner handshake, and wired the same primitive into the non-Rust clients. Here is how it is built and what bit me. Why hybrid, not pure PQ The threat is "harvest now, decrypt later": traffic captured today, decrypted once a large quantum computer exists. Classical X25519 does not survive that; pure ML-KEM is young, and I do not want one new primitiv...

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