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Re: Detecting Skype: anyone know how "Tom Online" do it?
From: Chris Edwards <chris () eng gla ac uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:11:29 +0100 (BST)
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Jason Haar wrote: | According to http://tinyurl.com/p7umu, "Tom Online" is the Skype partner | in China whose product is able to do word filtering on Skype traffic - | i.e. to be able to block Skype chats containing "illegal" words. | | As Skype traffic is supposed to be AES encrypted, that sounds rather | spectacular. | | Does anyone have other details on this? Have they reverse-engineered it, | and can we take advantage of such information with snort? ;-) Hi, When I first read your post I thought it meant detecting certain words when *spoken* via skype - which would be kinda tricky, encrypted or not! Now I see this refers to the instant (text) messaging which skype calls "chat". I suspect the censorship refered to in the article involves the collusion of skype.com themselves, who (it would seem) are able to decrypt the text message chat. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
Current thread:
- Detecting Skype: anyone know how "Tom Online" do it? Jason Haar (Apr 26)
- Re: Detecting Skype: anyone know how "Tom Online" do it? Chris Edwards (Apr 27)
- Re: Detecting Skype: anyone know how "Tom Online" do it? Gerhard Gaußling (Apr 27)
- Re: Detecting Skype: anyone know how "Tom Online" do it? Chris Edwards (Apr 27)