[Freeswitch-users] skype reverse engineered

[Steven Ayre]

There's nothing open about about Skype. The protocol is entirely closed and
proprietary.

They offer an API to talk to the Skype client from another program running
on the same machine, but that's about it. mod_skypopen works by running one
or more copies of the official Skype client, creating a virtual sound card
and communicating with that from FreeSWITCH.

-Steve



On 3 June 2011 16:02, Madovsky <infos at madovsky.org> wrote:

>  some logical I don't understand.
> why is it need reverse engineering if Skype had an open source community
> until today ?
>
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> *From:* Gopal krishnan <gopalakrishnan.an at gmail.com>
> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, June 03, 2011 9:54 AMS
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] skype reverse engineered
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> http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/intellectual-property/2011/06/03/skype-denounces-nefarious-reverse-engineering-40092982/
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:58 PM, mazilo <Nabble at slickdeals.endjunk.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Steven Ayre wrote:
>> > On the more optimistic note I have seen a good argument that there are
>> > enough hardware Skype phones with Skype that they can't easily block
>> older
>> > versions without breaking a lot of devices.
>> If Skype decides to block older version of software, then all it needs is
>> to
>> furnish Skype Phone hardware manufacturers with a new code to come up with
>> a
>> new firmware to support new Skype version. Then, hackers will start to
>> reversed engineer on the new version. And, the cat/mouse chase begins.
>>
>> OTOH, it looks like the source was released to
>> https://github.com/skypeopensource/skypeopensource/downloads GitHUB  on
>> 6/2/11. let's see how fast it will become a Linux compilable
>> package/plugin/module. I won't be surprised to see a working
>> mod_skype_re(versed engineered) soon if Anthony and/or FS developers will
>> decide to port the source into an FS module.
>>
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