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Re:Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh by metadat on Saturday July 11, 2026 @08:59PM (#48877327)
Just wondering, why do you care about encryption in this context?
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Re:Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh by darkpicnic on Saturday July 11, 2026 @09:25PM (#48877451)
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.
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Re:Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh by oezi on Saturday July 11, 2026 @10:03PM (#48877628)
Even if transport is encrypted, the LLM computations will always be clear text, right?
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Re:Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh by embedding-shape on Sunday July 12, 2026 @05:19AM (#48879635)
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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