The skype client was reverse engineered several years ago: @inproceedings{biondi06silver, title = {Silver Needle in the Skype}, author = {Philippe Biondi and Fabrice Desclaux}, note = "\url{www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf}", booktitle = {Black Hat Europe}, month = "Feb-Mar", year = 2006 }
I don't know if the new crack reveals anything new. We have a writeup about the Skype protection techniques in "Surreptitious Software", our book on security-through-obscurity. (Sorry for the blatant self-promotion). Christian Collberg Univ. Arizona --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com