Securing East-West Kubernetes Traffic with Hybrid ML-KEM Mutual TLS

Core engineering and protocols for PQC Service Mesh Microsegmentation.

Extending the Service Mesh Beyond Perimeter Defense

Traditional enterprise security focused on North-South ingress perimeters, leaving internal East-West microservice traffic vulnerable to lateral movement. MLKEMSecurity injects optimized Envoy sidecars into Kubernetes namespaces, enforcing mutual TLS (mTLS) with hybrid X25519MLKEM768 key establishment on every inter-pod connection.

Optimizing mTLS Performance with Session Resumption

To eliminate the CPU overhead of repetitive post-quantum handshakes between frequently communicating microservices, Envoy caches TLS 1.3 session tickets. Subsequent connections execute instantaneous zero-RTT or 1-RTT resumption using pre-shared symmetric keys, maintaining microsecond RPC latency.

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