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Whisper Leak side channel exposes topics in encrypted AI

🔎 Microsoft researchers disclosed a new side-channel attack called Whisper Leak that can infer the topic of encrypted conversations with language models by observing network metadata such as packet sizes and timings. The technique exploits streaming LLM responses that emit tokens incrementally, leaking size and timing patterns even under TLS. Vendors including OpenAI, Microsoft Azure, and Mistral implemented mitigations such as random-length padding and obfuscation parameters to reduce the effectiveness of the attack.