Skype v3.2 for Windows - FREE phone conversation

This Skype Review will help you to find out what this great software can do for you for free. Skype is a utility that enables you to speak through PC with your well-known ones that promises a greater quality of sound than the rest of programs of this type, affirming more than an ordinary call of telephone.

May 19, 2007 7:31 PM

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Skype is most similar to make a call that exists, until sound the typical telephone sounds. You make the call (with a simple click), you can off-hook when they call to you, to hang, even communicates if already it is being spoken with another person. Skype has list of friends, logs of calls, a fast and complete finder with which you will easily find people with whom to speak in the language which you wish, different states (available, invisible, occupied, etc.), until has lost calls! Skype is very easy to use, will be enough with making double click on the ready person to that you want to call and. Also it allows sending text messages.

At technical level to review that Skype, of the creators of KaZaA, does not present/display any kind of problems by type of connection, to router or firewalls, in addition, do not include any type of publicity nor spyware (verified with Ad-aware and Spybot Search & Destroy). Skype uses innovating technology P2P (to peer-to-peer) for connecting with other users of Skype. If you are tired to pay abusive telephone tariffs, Skype is for you”.

Who or who less already we have proven Skype more (there is versions for Windows, Mac, Linux, PDAs, etc…) and we have enjoyed the sensation to speak free with other users of the program (or with a very low tariff for calls to normal telephones), and with a quite acceptable quality. Nevertheless, the Web of Skype it also makes another affirmation that we cannot prove with only our direct experience: “The calls with Skype (...) are highly safe, with coding end-to-end.” Is that truth?

As normal users we cannot verify it, but the experts yes (or almost…) The Open Society Institute, member of the network of Soros foundations, has ordered to Simson Garfinkel, recognized gurú of the security, a report on the security of Skype, an aspect that worries specially to the great companies interested in using it. Nevertheless, as Garfinkel affirms, to verify the security of a proprietary and secret protocol it is not easy task.

It seems confirmed that Skype does not transmit the conversations in sure what makes inaccessible for an occasional spy, but is not known to what extent it protects them of an attacker with average falsified to its disposition. In this sense, Skype provides some facilities to the attacker since, for example, it does not prevent the traffic analysis. According to Skype, the program uses RSA for interchange of keys and AES 256 bits for the own coding of the packages, but this is impossible to verify

Protocol is secret and, therefore, suspect. The conclusion is that Skype probably is safer than a simple telephone conversation, but is of course more susceptible to interferences than a VoIP operating in a virtual private network, mainly if the attacker is ingenious, has applied reverse engineer, or has great means and interest. Finally, Garfinkel provides some recommendations for users of Skype, who will help to reduce the risk: to use antivirus and antispyware, to protect the used passwords, to change the user name regularly, etc.

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