Comment by throwaway35636
1 day ago
Interestingly the confer image on GitHub doesn’t seem to include in the attestation the model weights (they seem loaded from a mounted ext4 disk without dm-verity). Probably this doesn’t compromise the privacy of the communication (as long as the model format is not containing any executable part) but it exposes users to a “model swapping” attack, where the confer operator makes a user talk to an “evil” model without they can notice it. Such evil model may be fine tuned to provide some specifically crafted output to the user. Authenticating the model seems important, maybe it is done at another level of the stack?
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