Breaking Euston: Recovering Private Inputs from Secure Inference by Exploiting Subspace Leakage

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Main Authors: Zhao, Jiaqi, Wang, Fengwei
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Wang, Fengwei
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Wang, Fengwei
contents In the 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2026), Gao et al. proposed an efficient and user-friendly secure transformer inference framework, namely Euston. In Euston, a singular value decomposition-based matrix transmission protocol is designed to efficiently transmit input matrices, reducing communication bandwidth by approximately 2.8 times. In this manuscript, we show that this transmission protocol introduces subspace leakage of random masks, enabling the model owner to recover private samples easily. We further validate the effectiveness of the recovery attack through simple experiments on image and language datasets, highlighting a fundamental privacy risk of the protocol design.
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spellingShingle Breaking Euston: Recovering Private Inputs from Secure Inference by Exploiting Subspace Leakage
Zhao, Jiaqi
Wang, Fengwei
Cryptography and Security
In the 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2026), Gao et al. proposed an efficient and user-friendly secure transformer inference framework, namely Euston. In Euston, a singular value decomposition-based matrix transmission protocol is designed to efficiently transmit input matrices, reducing communication bandwidth by approximately 2.8 times. In this manuscript, we show that this transmission protocol introduces subspace leakage of random masks, enabling the model owner to recover private samples easily. We further validate the effectiveness of the recovery attack through simple experiments on image and language datasets, highlighting a fundamental privacy risk of the protocol design.
title Breaking Euston: Recovering Private Inputs from Secure Inference by Exploiting Subspace Leakage
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17238