Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 19:54 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
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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RE: Skype Encryption Stumps German Police
by unoengborg on Wed 4th Nov 2009 00:00
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Member since: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.
RE[2]: Skype Encryption Stumps German Police
by jokkel on Wed 4th Nov 2009 14:45
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Member since:2008-07-07
RE: Skype Encryption Stumps German Police
by cycoj on Thu 5th Nov 2009 05:30
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Member since:2007-11-04
Except for the part that Austrian police indicated that they have no problems listening to conversations and several other indications that there is a backdoor which allows certain parties to listen in on skype. Have a google, another reason to use an open VOIP protocol you can be sure that there are no backdoors.
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2008-08-25
German police should be happy.