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Ask HN: End-to-end encrypted LLM chat (open- and closed-model)

3•5F7bGnd6fWJ66xN•3mo ago
I’m exploring a software layer—analogous to public/private-key crypto—so a user can converse with an LLM where prompts and responses remain unreadable to all intermediaries, including the model host. (I mean “cipher” in the cryptographic sense.)

Two cases: Open-weights model: ensure the operator still can’t read prompts/responses. Closed, hosted model: true E2EE so even the provider can’t inspect content.

Topics we can discuss: Best near-term path: TEEs with attestation, FHE/HE, MPC/split inference, PIR for retrieval, differential privacy, or hybrids? How to handle key exchange/rotation for forward secrecy? Practical performance/accuracy limits (e.g., non-linearities, KV-cache, streaming)? Minimal viable architecture and realistic threat model? Any prior art or teams you’d point me to?

Please DM if you are interested in working with me.

Comments

kiririn7•3mo ago
sounds interesting. use case though? i cant imagine there is a large demand for this
KashyapArjun•3mo ago
I was thinking about this a while ago… the loophole I see is that the provider is the one who sets the public/private key of the LLM. And because the LLM is not a person who remembers its password (unless we come up with a way for it), we cannot guarantee that the provider doesn’t use keys to decrypt and read the messages.