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Skype’s security credentials have been called into question by a developer who claims to have released a software library that emulates an encryption algorithm used by the popular VoIP service.
Sean O’Neill, best known for designing the EnRUPT hash algorithm, has released program code which emulates the RC4 algorithm used by Skype to encrypt communications over its network.
Skype is widely used in home and business environments, and the company guards its source code fiercely.
This has led to numerous attempts to crack the encryption algorithm which would result in conversations being deciphered to ‘plaintext’.
An initial analysis of the code appears to show that O’Neill’s solution is a partial exposure of Skype’s privacy measures.
However, given the resourceful nature of hackers, a small crack could expand into a gaping fissure in a relatively short space of time.
