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

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Gutmann
Christian Collberg collb...@gmail.com writes: 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). No need to apologise, it's a damn

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

2010-07-12 Thread Christian Collberg
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 =