Saturday, 1. August 2009
Topic: WEB - on August 1, 2009 at 10:13:00 AM CEST
eBay could ditch uncrackable Skype tech
Skype's proprietary scrambling technology is purportedly the bane of electronic spies at the NSA and GCHQ, and now in a move sure to spark conspiracy theories, eBay has quietly revealed it could rip out and replace the code at its core.
In a regulatory filing this week, the online auction house said it might substitute Skype's encrypted peer to peer technology, which it has licensed from a company named Joltid.
"Skype has begun to develop alternative software to that licensed through Joltid," eBay told US regulators.
