Fwd: Anyone make any sense out of this skype hack announcement?

Christian Collberg collberg at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 14:32:24 EDT 2010


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

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