๐ SECURITY
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
+++ Turns out LLM providers' clever scheme to hide chain-of-thought reasoning by encrypting and shuttling it between client and server has a fundamental flaw: the encrypted blocks work across sessions, making them reusable tokens ripe for extraction. +++
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
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๐ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ฏ Encryption vulnerability exploitation โข Provider distrust & opacity โข Safeguard inadequacy
๐ฌ "The hiding of this data only brings distrust to their frontier models"
โข "We take a trace produced by a frontier model, replay it into a weaker sibling, jailbreak the weaker model"