DocumentCode
653805
Title
Design and implementation of a Skype Protocol Analyzer
Author
Ray-Guang Cheng ; Po-Yao Tsai ; Ping-Chen Lin ; Chia-Liang Lian ; Tse-Han Liu ; Hsien-Cheng Chou ; Shiao-Li Tsao ; Shanchieh Yang
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan
fYear
2013
fDate
14-16 Oct. 2013
Firstpage
375
Lastpage
376
Abstract
Proprietary protocols on the Internet often pose challenges for users and analysts to determine how secure the applications are or how easy private information can be accessed. This work presents a tool that processes packets generated by Skype and analyzes its proprietary implementation. The goal of the exercise is to determine how one may reverse engineer a proprietary protocol and obtain private information. The results demonstrate that a buddy-list of a target user can be obtained through the developed Skype Protocol Analyzer.
Keywords
Internet telephony; protocols; Internet; Skype protocol analyzer; private information; proprietary protocols; Encryption; IP networks; Peer-to-peer computing; Ports (Computers); Protocols; Privacy; Protocol; Skype;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2013 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
National Harbor, MD
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CNS.2013.6682735
Filename
6682735
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