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@datosh datosh commented May 30, 2025

Hey 👋
I recently spend some time researching the current state of post quantum cryptography in the cloud native industry.
For some topics I found little to no information especially in the Kubernetes ecosystem, so I thought I share my findings with the community!

Discussion on Slack:

Happy for any comments or suggestions on the post.

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@datosh datosh force-pushed the post-on-pqc-in-k8s branch from 6a12508 to d5013cb Compare May 30, 2025 11:32
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Composition/writing check. No real grammar/punctuation editing needed. However, one suggestion on article flow, and one link needs to be replaced.

The rest of the links all look OK.

Note that I have no expertise in the cryptography details covered by the article.

theoretical for many applications, their potential to break current
cryptographic standards is a serious concern, especially for long-lived
systems. This is where _Post-Quantum Cryptography_ (PQC) comes in. In this
article, I\'ll dive into what PQC means for TLS and, more specifically, for the
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Is it actually necessary to escape apostrophes? This doesn't break anything, but I don't recall it being required before.

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I escaped them, because I thought I saw it in the style guide, but now I fail to find a reference.
As you said "it doesn't break anything", so I would leave it as is, unless you disagree.

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datosh commented Jun 3, 2025

Thank you, for taking the time to review this @jberkus
I have resolved / replied to all comments.

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lmktfy commented Jun 3, 2025

@kubernetes/sig-security-pr-reviews is this article OK to publish (in terms of cryptography / infosec message)?

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[Cloudflare\'s CIRCL] (Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library)
library implements some PQC signature schemes like variants of Dilithium, and
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Better:

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[Cloudflare\'s CIRCL] (Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library)
library implements some PQC signature schemes like variants of Dilithium, and
Cloudflare's [CIRCL](https://github.com/cloudflare/circl)
(Cloudflare Interoperable Reusable Cryptographic Library)
implements some PQC signature schemes, such as variants of Dilithium, and

(and drop the reference later in the article)

Inline hyperlinks are easier to maintain, especially for localization teams. This article may well end up getting localized into up to 13, and counting, target languages.

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Wait, is this a change to stylesheet from Docs? Because for years we've been telling people to use end links specifically for maintenance purposes.

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@jberkus first I knew about the preference for end links. Let's take this to SIG Docs' Slack channel?

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lmktfy commented Jun 20, 2025

We should be able to get eyes on this next week.

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