Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 19:54 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Internet & Networking We waited a little while with this news, because we wanted official confirmation from Skype before jumping on the internet bandwagon. It's official now, so here we go: Skype has announced that it will release its Linux client as open source. A little late, but welcome nonetheless.
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unoengborg
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2005-07-06

German police should be happy.


If having the source makes much of a difference when breaking an ecncrypted message, skype need a better encryption algorithm.

The strength of the crypto algorithm should be based on something that is mathematically hard to undo even if you know how it was done.

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