* Perry E. Metzger: > Excerpt: > > Jennifer Caukin, Skype's director of corporate communications > replied to us: "We have not received any subpoenas or court > orders asking us to perform a live interception or wiretap of > Skype-to-Skype communications. In any event, because of Skype's > peer-to-peer architecture and encryption techniques, Skype would > not be able to comply with such a request." > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9963028-38.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheIconoclast
It's sort-of industry practice to wiretap peer-to-peer voice-over-IP environments by asking the naming service not to signal the availability of a direct, end-to-end, but to fall back to some media gateway (which is there for interoperability with the phone network anyway). I'm surprised that is compliant with regulatory requirements, but apparently, it is. So, at that point, it wouldn't be "Skype-to-Skype" anymore. It also solves the problem of getting access to the media stream (which is the difficult part for traditional VoIP systems, which are encrypted only in the marketing brochures). --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
