Paper 2025/661 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2025/661 ↗

An LLM Framework For Cryptography Over Chat Channels

Danilo Gligoroski
Mayank Raikwar
Sonu Kumar Jha
Abstract

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed communication, yet their role in secure messaging remains underexplored, especially in surveillance-heavy environments. At the same time, many governments all over the world are proposing legislation to detect, backdoor, or even ban encrypted communication. That emphasizes the need for alternative ways to communicate securely and covertly over open channels. We propose a novel cryptographic embedding framework that enables covert Public Key or Symmetric Key encrypted communication over public chat channels with human-like produced texts. Some unique properties of our framework are: 1. It is LLM agnostic, i.e., it allows participants to use different local LLM models independently; 2. It is pre- or post-quantum agnostic; 3. It ensures indistinguishability from human-like chat-produced texts. Thus, it offers a viable alternative where traditional encryption is detectable and restricted.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2025-04-11: last updated
2025-04-11: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2025/661
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2025/661,
      author = {Danilo Gligoroski and Mayank Raikwar and Sonu Kumar Jha},
      title = {An LLM Framework For Cryptography Over Chat Channels},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/661},
      year = {2025},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/661}
}
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