On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:39:17PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 21:27 +0200, Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote: > > Carlo Capocasa wrote: > > > This give me hope. Maybe proprietary technology IS inherently inferior! > > > > Dunno, but, the IT-personell of my local university banned Skype after > > they discovered it turns itself into a server if it detects good enough > > bandwith after some time online. This server is then used to distribute > > other people's calls. In other words, it uses your bandwidth for it's > > own business without telling you. > > > > Well, I don't see a problem with that, Skype is a P2P app - of course > it's a client and a server. But I see a problem with skype's b0rken encryption (they seem to use the same RC4 sequence twice, with a lot of known plain text bytes in the first run, so hacking this is straight forward) and the possibility for others to make their computer a supernode which might route my call if I am behind a firewall. For more details see: http://www.golem.de/0603/44146.html (german) http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf (link taken from above document, very interesting) > > I'd just like to know if one person has it working with the emu10k1 > driver. Sorry for not answering your question either. Jacob
