eWeek: Has the Skype Protocol Been Cracked?
A claim that a group of researchers in China has successfully cracked the Skype protocol has set the blogosphere alight, but the company says there is no evidence that the software has been reverse-engineered.
“We have no evidence to suggest that this is true. Even if it was possible to do this, the software code would lack the feature set and reliability of Skype,” the company, headquartered in Luxembourg, said in a statement sent to eWEEK.
According to Charlie Paglee, CEO of VOIP (voice-over-IP) startup Vozin Communications, in Fremont, Calif., engineers at a small research outfit in China have cracked Skype’s proprietary protocol to create a third-party application capable of connecting to Skype’s 100 million users. [Read on]