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Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering

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– October 30, 2011Posted in: Article, News, Opinion, Submitted

While Skype has now expanded their Linux API support to allow other applications to take advantage of Skype video calls and other features, a few months ago the Skype protocol began to be reverse-engineered by an independent researcher. Skype took action several times against this work.

In early June I mentioned the Skype protocol was reverse-engineered by a researcher. He was successful in reverse-engineering the Skype 1.4 protocol and subsequently wrote a “send message to Skype” open-source demo program. He followed through and published details regarding the Skype protocol.

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