French Court of Appeals rejects a lawsuit on improper decryption of the Skype protocol

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Skype, Microsoft's subsidiary, uses proprietary protocols for its IP phone service "Skype". Although the Skype protocol was accused by two engineers working in a French company illegally deciphering and making it public, it was rejected by the French court of appeals.

La justice française blanchit le cassage du protocole de Skype
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Russian hacker Efim Bushmanov was strictly guarded as a trade secret in the Skype source code when Microsoft bought Skype in 2011 about 8.5 billion dollars (about 700 billion yen at the time) , The Skype protocol was announced on his blog, which means that most of the decryption was done by Vest Corporation.

ByIan Kennedy

Since the disclosure of this protocol was discovered, Microsoft and Skype illegally broke into the enterprise's computer system to decipher the Skype protocol, and co-founders of Vest Corporation Mr. Christian Durandy and Sean O'Neill Accusation. Sean O'Neill talks about the decryption key and security protocol of the Skype protocolEnRUPTIt seems that Efim Bushmanov announced the result of the deciphering based on this as it described it in the blog saying.

France 3 Basse NormandieAccording to the report, while the prosecutor requested a sentence with suspended execution for one year, the court upheld the behavior of the two, and the actions of the tworeverse engineeringFrom the standpoint of lawful, it is judged that it was illegal to distribute a method to find a protocol used for software.

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"We were able to freely make software that competes with Skype, which is a wonderful result for the French digital industry," said Christian Durandy when leaving the courtroom. Also, Christopher Alleaume, his lawyer says, "Skype is more than trying to prevent competing software that is comparable to Skype from growing, rather than bettering their services."

In addition, the court orders Microsoft to pay 1000 euros (about ¥ 130,000) as damages due to non-economic damage.