Skype have recently considered legal action against an individual whose team has claimed that they have reverse engineered one of the VoIP giant’s encryption algorithm. Sean O’Neil, who is known for designing the EnRUPT algorithm, released code on his blog which emulates Skype’s RC4 encryption algorithm, used to protect communication between users on its network. “We believe that the work being done by Sean O’Neil, who we understand was formerly known as Yaroslav Charnovsky, is directly facilitating spamming attacks against Skype and we are considering our legal remedies,”

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