On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, cyphrpunk wrote:
> Is it possible that Skype doesn't use RSA encryption? Or if they do, > do they do it without using any padding, and is that safe? You may want to read the report itself: http://www.skype.com/security/files/2005-031%20security%20evaluation.pdf and perhaps section 3.2.3 (about padding) and 3.2.2 (about how RSA is used) may help with this (and what it is used for in section 2). Dw.