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Re: Fwd: Anyone make any sense out of this skype hack announcement?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Jul 13 06:54:47 2010
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: collberg@gmail.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinfGEfTPlzAfwQ9xCa2GuJZuVpeYTP6-7lh0_ZG@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:53:31 +1200
Christian Collberg <collberg@gmail.com> writes:
>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).
No need to apologise, it's a damn good read. For people not familiar with it,
the title is a bit misleading (it sounds like a book about malware), it's
actually a book on software obfuscation and tamperproofing, IMHO it's the
definitive reference on the topic.
Peter.
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