Policy-Governed Post-Quantum Migration for Legacy Microservices Using Ephemeral Sidecar Architectures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14286v1
• Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:05:31 GMT
• Title: Policy-Governed Post-Quantum Migration for Legacy Microservices Using Ephemeral Sidecar Architectures
• Abstract summary: This research presents a PolicyGoverned Post-Quantum Migration through Ephemeral Sidecar Architectures (PG-PQMES)<n>An innovative PolicyGoverned Ephemeral PQ Migration (PGEPM) algorithm is proposed to maximize the performance, compliance, and trust-based migration.<n>The findings show that a sidecar-based migration strategy that is policy-based offers a viable, scalable, and enterprise-scale migration to a secure post-quantum transformation.
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• Abstract: The fast development of quantum computing represents a big risk to classical cryptography that is commonly used in cloud native and microservice based enterprise systems. Traditional cryptographic primitives are closely linked to legacy microservices and it is both intricate, hazardous, and disruptive to straight up migrate to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). In a bid to overcome these issues, this research presents a PolicyGoverned Post-Quantum Migration through Ephemeral Sidecar Architectures (PG-PQMES), a framework of dynamic and reversible migration that allows transparent adoption of PQC without any modifications in the legacy code of applications. The architecture is a combination of three coherent layers, including Ephemeral Crypto Sidecar Layer which injects the runtime cryptography, Policy Governance Layer which manages the migration centrally, and Migration Safety and Observability Layer which measures the performance and rolls back automatically. An innovative Policy-Governed Ephemeral PQ Migration (PG-EPM) algorithm is proposed to maximize the performance, compliance, and trust-based migration. In simulated environment of microservices, experimental assessment shows that the time of migration, service downtime, overheads of latency, and rollback recovery time are substantially reduced using the current migration strategies. The findings show that a sidecar-based migration strategy that is policy-based offers a viable, scalable, and enterprise-scale migration to a secure post-quantum transformation.

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