Skype protocol rumored to be cracked
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IT administrators have learned to fear Skype and its supernode super opaque peer-to-peer technology. With such a nice piece of software, infiltrating firewalls is guaranteed and security companies acknowledge the lack of consistency of currently available Skype buster solutions.
A couple of weeks ago, our source from inside Wengo, the French softphone maker, informed us that bridging Skype is possible. But we didn’t unveil the info ― too unsure.
And now,
the weblog WebTownCharlie Paglee affirmed it loud. Skype so hard proprietary protocol has been cracked:“His company has successfully reverse engineered the Skype protocol and he wanted to call me in the United States to see how it worked between physically distant IP addresses. Their end goal is to create a client 100% compatible with Skype,” and license the cracked protocol.
If this is true, a league of corporate security systems and IM manufacturers would be delighted to grab the “Da Vinci code”. Of course, connecting to Skype doesn’t imply eBay is loosing its $2.6 billion acquisition, just a reached milestone. But it may be the time for Skype to change its only-me mentality.
UPDATE, July 15, 2006 — Charlie Paglee informed us about the plagiarism. Charlie, we’re deeply sorry. We truly hate plagiarism. Hate. Sorry.
Jul 13, 2006 | By Nuno
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Jan in Malaysia did not affirm ANYTHING! Jan PLAGIORIZED the entire article from my Blog: www.voipwiki.com. He did this within minutes of the Blog being posted. He did not provide a TrackBack to let me know that he had copied the article.
Please change your link to www.voipwiki.com and remove Jan from the article.
Thanks. Charlie Paglee, Esq.
It’s just amazing, who are these engineers? Will they license the code?
Sean, it just looks like the ‘Iron curtain’ is collapsing. Cracking Skype protocol to license it might help a handful of companies appear on the radar. But that doesn’t weaken Skype’s hegemony. In fact, it’s the opposite. Skype now forced to do open source development and if its protocol is still dead popular, a lot of new applications will rely on it.
What could really change is the way eBay is integrating Skype. Skype’s protocol cracked means eBay has to speed up or change its roadmap. For instance, people could use a light version Skype without all the Paypal functionalities.