On Friday 20 June 2008 06:51:51 am Tim Cutts wrote: > That'll be why we don't allow Skype, except on one network which, > from a security perspective, is considered to be outside the > Institute, and just as untrusted as the rest of the Internet.
I think that's a wise decision. Skype is a giant black box. Fabrice Desclaux published a fair amount of cryptanalysis papers about Skype, each one more frightening than the previous ([1], [2] and [3]) [1]http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf [2]http://recon.cx/en/f/vskype-part1.pdf [3]http://recon.cx/en/f/vskype-part2.pdf In 2005, an official recommendation has been issued by the French authorities to prohibit usage of Skype in the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)'s networks (see [4], and [5] for the machine-translated version) [4]http://www.urec.cnrs.fr/rubrique216.html [5]http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urec.cnrs.fr%2Frubrique216.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=fr&tl=en -- Kilian _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
