Re: SKYPE - What's the latest in terms of Risk...

[Chris Edwards <chris () ENG GLA AC UK>]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Mike Corcoran wrote:

| Not True, at least in general.  The new firewall from
| PaloAlto Networks decrypts SSL traffic by doing a
| man-in-the-middle attack, and allows  you to filter
| even on encrypted traffic.  I don't know if there are
| any issues with Skype's SSL implementation, but PaloAlto

Hi,

AFAIK, Skype does not use SSL.  It uses it's own propriatory encryption
system.  Sometimes over TCP port 443.  Not it's not SSL.