Chapel Hill Computational Linguists Crack Skype Calls

mikejuk writes "You might think of linguistics as being interesting but not really useful. Now computational linguistics [PDF of original paper] has been used to crack Skype encryption and reconstruct what is being said in a VoIP call. What is surprising is that though they are encrypted, the frames that make up a Skype call contain clues about what phonemes are being spoken."

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Re:Side channel attack

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

There's a reason that SSH has inserted random padding into its packets since its inception. You would think that the folks at Skype might've done just a a bit more research...