On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:39:17PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 21:27 +0200, Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote:
> > Carlo Capocasa wrote:
> > > This give me hope. Maybe proprietary technology IS inherently inferior!
> >
> > Dunno, but, the IT-personell of my local university banned Skype after
> > they discovered it turns itself into a server if it detects good enough
> > bandwith after some time online. This server is then used to distribute
> > other people's calls. In other words, it uses your bandwidth for it's
> > own business without telling you.
> >
>
> Well, I don't see a problem with that, Skype is a P2P app - of course
> it's a client and a server.
But I see a problem with skype's b0rken encryption (they seem to use the same
RC4 sequence twice, with a lot of known plain text bytes in the first
run, so hacking this is straight forward) and the possibility for others
to make their computer a supernode which might route my call if I am
behind a firewall.
For more details see:
http://www.golem.de/0603/44146.html (german)
http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf (link taken from
above document, very interesting)
>
> I'd just like to know if one person has it working with the emu10k1
> driver.
Sorry for not answering your question either.
Jacob
Received on Tue Apr 4 04:15:06 2006
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