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Skype Encryption (Partly) Revealed
TSHTF writes "Just weeks after Skype unveiled a public API for the service, a group of cryptographers led by Sean O'Neill have successfully reverse engineered the encryption used by the Skype protocol. Source code is available under a non-commercial license which details Skype's implementation of the RC4 cipher." The linked article cautions, however, that "initial analysis suggests that O'Neill's publication does not mean that Skype's encryption can be considered 'cracked'. Further study will be needed to determine whether key expansion and initialisation vector generation are secure."
Let me get this straight. Presumably you've known a few journalism students in your lifetime. Probably you've even talked to them too. Most likely you realized what fucking idiots they all are, being incurious types more likely to have a crush on a bartender than a serious engineering student.
Why are you expecting that a journalist might produce something that you, a person likely of normal or higher intelligence, would find useful?
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!