Re: How to pentest Skype?

From: Chris Eagle (cseagle@redshift.com)
Date: Thu May 18 2006 - 20:49:11 EDT


4secure@web.de wrote:
> Hello friends!
>
> I ask myself, how I can check the security of Skype?
> Unfortunately, with my searches on the Internet I could bring only very little in experience about the technology behind Skype. Does somebody of you have experience with this? Where can I receive more information?
> Where, e.g., does the end to end encryption stop with SkypeOut? Where does it start with SkypeIn?
> My information mainly bases from the Skype homepage and wikipedia.org (incl. the references given there). I would be grateful for some information!
>

You might start with this Blackhat presentation:

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf

Chris

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