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Written by Fabrice Desclaux and Kostya Kortchinsky   
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Insiders View: Network Security Devices

This presentation talks about the fact and fiction of today's security devices. It explains how to approach testing the validly of their claims and provides multiple examples of real world products and their weaknesses.

Rarely do security engineers look at network products from the creation point of view. Understanding how and why they are created and the limitations of that process can lead to finding security issues quite a bit quicker and easier.


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Skype is a free (as in beer) voice over IP application. Many other VOIP applications exist, but some specific points make Skype very different, such as its peer-to-peer architecture, its ease to bypass firewalls and, last but not least, the impressive level of obfuscation that has been invested to prevent anybody from looking inside the software and its communications. This last point added to its increasing success gave birth to many myths on security issues around it.

This presentation will go through the many layers of protection that have been used to protect Skype internals. Tools and technics used to do so will also be presented. We will conclude this trip by showing some of those Skype little secrets.

Download: http://www.secure-software-engineering.com/downloads/recon2006/recon2006_Desclaux_Vaillla_Skype.zip

Download: http://www.secure-software-engineering.com/downloads/recon2006/recon2006_Desclaux_Vaillla_Skype_1.pdf

Download: http://www.secure-software-engineering.com/downloads/recon2006/recon2006_Desclaux_Vaillla_Skype_2.pdf