Russian hacker claims he cracked Skype protocol
Russian hacker Efim Bushmanov has claimed that he has reverse-engineered the well-protected source code of the popular Skype software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over the Internet.
"My aim is to make Skype open source. And find friends who can spend many hours for completely reverse it," Bushmanov wrote in his blog. Bushmanov is using a recently created Blogspot account in Google to publish the results of his "research."
A Russian expert from the ESET IT security company said that the data published by Bushmanov was the most comprehensive to be ever revealed to the public. "Preliminary analysis indicates that a lot of stuff [published by Bushmanov] resembles the actual Skype protocol, but it will take a long time to confirm its authenticity," Alexander Morozov said.
