If you are on a hub. Everyone on that hub gets to see all your traffic..
There are program to break passwords.
YMMV
Marvin
On 4/10/10, Jozsi Vadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone [same subnet, e.g.: with a hub, not switch..] sniff my skype
> password when i'm using Skype? Is it encrypted?
>
> Thank you for the info
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> Can someone [same subnet, e.g.: with a hub, not switch..] sniff my skype
(Switches just make sniffing harder)
> password when i'm using Skype? Is it encrypted?
I'm always wary of pointing people at Wackypedia but in this case the
references it has are probablya good summary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security
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04-10-2010, 02:55 PM
Jozsi Vadkan
is skype using encryption?
Can someone [same subnet, e.g.: with a hub, not switch..] sniff my skype
password when i'm using Skype? Is it encrypted?
Thank you for the info
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