[p2p-hackers] Skype's "Global Index"

[Brad Neuberg]

I found a presentation where some researchers seem to have reverse 
engineered some of the Skype protocol.  Thought others might find this useful:

http://mnet.cs.nthu.edu.tw/paper/Chance/041125.pdf



At 01:19 PM 12/14/2004, you wrote:
>Brad Neuberg wrote:
>>Does anyone know what techniques Skype might be using to actually achieve 
>>this?
>
>I would wager that it's a DHT, by another name, with their own
>pragmatic wrinkles to deal with observed real-net conditions.
>(That would be their pattern as established with the original
>Kazaa, which ran slightly ahead of Gnutella/published work with
>some necessary and pragmatic bootstrapping, alt-source, and
>supernode innovations.)
>
>But I'm just speculating.
>
>- Gordon
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Brad Neuberg, bkn3 at columbia.edu
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