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Skype was "secure", for some limited definition of the term. It was secure if you trust a closed-source program made by a company that could be decrypting your
by gnosis 13y ago
Skype was "secure", for some limited definition of the term.
It was secure if you trust a closed-source program made by a company that could be decrypting your communication because they've got your keys, or that could have put any number of backdoors in the program.
And it's secure if you don't consider the possibility of doing traffic analysis, or the fact that most people are identifiable by their IP addresses, etc.
If you lower your standards enough, I guess anything could be considered "secure".
- Zigurd 13y agoStarting with closed-source clients, yeah, Skype had limitations w.r.t security and trust. OTOH, I don't recall a successful attack on Skype. My comment was more directed toward the fact that ephemeral keys and P2P can be secure and convenient for real-time communication.
- danso 13y agoHowever, the trade off is that whoever you want to communicate with has to have that same client (Skype or anything)...no big deal, you say? just have everyone use it?...well, once a service gets that much penetration, a company will own the popular implementation, and then you're back to square one.