[Lilux-help] Skype !?

[Brent Frère]

Alex a écrit :

>On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:32, pascal.steichen at lilux.lu wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>Did anybody already download and use the skype P2P telephony tool ? Heard
>>that its relatively nice, however do I have my concerns about the securiy
>>inside, they talk about end-to-end enreyption, but as it's closed source I
>>can't really check its quality.
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>>Has anybody knowledge about the quality of skype's security ? As it's a
>>Luxembourg company, my interests are of courye also on a professional
>>basis ;)
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>>thanks for any answers, links, etc.
>>
>>ciao,
>>pst
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>AFAIK, Brent is the person youi searched!
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My wife costed me roughtly 500 EUR a month in international calls using EPT.
My wife costed me about 150 EUR a month in international calls using 
CrossComm.
I'm still maried, and she still has capacity to use a phone, so I had to 
find a solution to reduce the recurent costs, or buy a phone company, or 
suppress phones at home.
I tryed Skype (my engagement for free software would lead me to use 
GnomeMeeting, but the price of calls to fixed phone with it is twice the 
price of Skype).
I invested in headsets. I even tryed to find a dual-way wireless 
headset. Not yet available at acceptable price.
The result is: 50% of the time, the communication is acceptable, using 
SkypeOut (so to legacy phones). My bill got reduced to 70 EUR, because 
my wife switches to the phone when Skype is not delivering the espected 
service. So you can conclude that Skype is a good service, knowing that 
it is still (and will remain) no more than a BEST EFFORT service. For 
2EURc/min, it's 5 times cheaper than CrossComm, so you have value for 
your money.
I informed my wife about the period in a day where the Internet is less 
loaded, and she follows now my advice, and I think it increases the 
efficiency rate of Skype service.
I have no info about Skype security. Believe me, the stategic value of 
informations exchanged between my wife and her mother is close to 0. I 
don't really care about this, but when they talk about me. If you have 
concerns about Skype at security level, check the web about experiences. 
I didn't heard about any issue there until now. You can also consider 
running Skype in a sub-system (User Space Kernel) or under a very 
limited account (nobody). But I think they don't want to play this game. 
I think there is much more risk at using eMule or Internet Exploder.

Yours,

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