On Sunday 30 August 2009 12:01:22 Tim wrote: > Marko Vojinovic: > > Is there any initiative or attempts to reverse engineer its protocol? > > It's closed source because they want it to be secret, other vendors with > the same attitude repeatedly change their protocols to thwart third > party clients, and I wouldn't expect skype to behave any differently. > That sort of thing puts a bit of a dent in people wanting to reverse > engineer something. I understand that some vendors do this, but I believe skype needs to preserve protocol compatibility over different versions, simply in order not to break communication between peers with different software versions. I doubt it can force all users to upgrade to the latest protocol simultaneously, like some other vendors can. So I think it would be enough to reverse-engineer *some* version of the protocol, and have Ekiga present itself as some (maybe a little older version of) skype. I do understand that reverse-engineering closed and intentionally secret software is not easy in itself, but I believe it would have a good lifetime if done. And I also believe such a project would get immediate and strong support from the community. I myself would do a lot to help out --- testing, internet hosting, cpu cycles, writing documentation... I just don't have any money to offer, and I lack the knowledge to do serious coding. But surely I am not the first one to have such an idea, or am I? Best, :-) Marko -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
