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Re: Anyone make any sense out of this skype hack announcement?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom McGhan)
Mon Jul 12 13:54:30 2010
Reply-to: "Tom McGhan" <tmcghan@ieee.org>
From: "Tom McGhan" <tmcghan@ieee.org>
To: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:19:47 -0400
According to Steve Gibson, on his "Security Now!" podcast, episode 0x0100:
http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/Security_Now_256
the supposed hack was a case of reverse engineering to reproduce the internal
keys and initialization vectors needed to build a Skype-compatible client, and not a break
of RC4 per se.
The loooooooooong podcast, 1 hour 54 minutes, is at
http://media.grc.com/sn/sn-256.mp3
The "Skype crack" discussion lasts a bit more than 7 minutes,
starting around the 33:00 time mark.
A transcript is posted here:
http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-256.pdf
The discussion starts on page 12, paragraph 4.
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