If payloads to LLMs are being passed around to various nodes, even trusted ones (like friends and family), it gets awkward if you send something very personal. Think sending a medical question to medgemma:27b.
Indeed, it's in-transit-encrypted so snoopers won't be able to see it, but it's not E2E encrypted nor in-process encrypted, the one's doing the inference could obviously see the input/output.
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Does Mesh LLM encrypt the payload between nodes? Is it possible to read requests from other users?
I'm not affiliated, but yes – the main 'point' of iroh is that it's 'dial-a-key', QUIC with encryption based on the keys of the endpoints.
Just wondering, why do you care about encryption in this context?
If payloads to LLMs are being passed around to various nodes, even trusted ones (like friends and family), it gets awkward if you send something very personal. Think sending a medical question to medgemma:27b.
Even if transport is encrypted, the LLM computations will always be clear text, right?
Indeed, it's in-transit-encrypted so snoopers won't be able to see it, but it's not E2E encrypted nor in-process encrypted, the one's doing the inference could obviously see the input/output.