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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jokkel
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2008-07-07

Skypes crypto uses standard methods: sha, rsa, rc4, aes and so forth.

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jabbotts Member since:
2007-09-06

With the source free, the encryption is very likely to close any backdoors or bugs and adjust quickly to future changes in cryptology.

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malu Member since:
2009-03-31

Except the part that they intend to open-source (the UI) likely does not involve the crypto code...

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