[Asterisk-Dev] A crazy idea... Skype channel in Asterisk

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Florian Overkamp wrote:

> Uhm, I'm not in the USA, but if I remember all this correctly, the DMCA
> explicitly allows reverse engineering with the purpose to create an
> original work in order to achieve interoperability. I think that would
> pretty much allow it, unless patent-law is broken.

IIRC, there is an exception to the reverse-engineering rule that 
disallows reverse-engineering for the purposes of 
breaking/defeating/compromising encryption. In this case, that would be 
necessary for interoperability, since Skype is encrypted.

Really, that's the biggest obstacle anyway: even if you can figure out 
their protocol, and what encryption methods they are using, if you can't 
get their encryption keys you haven't really accomplished anything.