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Fwd: Anyone make any sense out of this skype hack announcement?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Collberg)
Mon Jul 12 14:59:33 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim2Ao5dm21u8pYDCO1MsvAHgWyGlJ0gR4XNi4Y-@mail.gmail.com>
From: Christian Collberg <collberg@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:32:24 +0800
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
The skype client was reverse engineered several years ago:
@inproceedings{biondi06silver,
=A0 title =3D {Silver Needle in the Skype},
=A0 author =3D {Philippe Biondi and Fabrice Desclaux},
=A0 note =3D "\url{www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-bio=
ndi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf}",
=A0 booktitle =3D {Black Hat Europe},
=A0 month =3D "Feb-Mar",
=A0 year =3D 2006
}
I don't know if the new crack reveals anything new. We have
a writeup about the Skype protection techniques in
"Surreptitious Software", our book on security-through-obscurity.
(Sorry for the blatant self-promotion).
Christian Collberg
Univ. Arizona
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