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An Analysis of the Skype Protocol

Posted by michael on Thursday January 20, 2005 @05:50AM from the past-the-firewall-nothing-but-net dept.

zib writes "Ever felt a need to peek under the hood of your Skype client? This paper (PDF) explains all the details. Among other issues, it focuses on the NAT capabilities of Skype and audio compression."

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Re:Supernodes? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-20 06:01 · Score: 2, Funny

You're going to need a pretty super node to decrypt 256-bit AES.
Windows registry? what's that? by froggero1 · 2005-01-20 06:01 · Score: 5, Funny

Skype stores its buddy information in teh Windows Registry. Buddy list is digitally singed and encrypted.....
Strange, I have it installed on my linux machine... and it doesn't have a windows registry... guess I dont have the capability of storing a buddy list.

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~/.sig: No such file or directory
Any more docs like this? by PetoskeyGuy · 2005-01-20 06:32 · Score: 2, Funny

NAT tranversal is great, and Skype is nice an solid. We're adding this to our next product. Does anyone know where I could find more documents like this?