French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol

Re:French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol by cynwoody on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @03:34AM (#6597422)

Reverse engineering of protocols should be as American as the First Amendment!

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Re:French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol by ars on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @05:59AM (#6597828)

I'm pretty sure it's legal in the US as well. The gold method is two teams: One reverse engineers and writes documentation, and the second team implements based on the documentation and never sees the original.

The question is if it's legal to talk to the skype servers this way.....

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Re:French Court Allows Reverse Engineering of Skype Protocol by slig on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @07:58AM (#6598177)

This is known as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

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