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Story: Kazaa founders tout P2P VoIP
Posted by: Anonymous (Sunday 14 September 2003, 7:44 PM)
Hi Ben,
Thanks so much for the excellent Skype article. I hope there's a way to preserve the link to it for a few months because I just posted a HTML address link to it in the new Yahoo! discussion group, "SkyPe Voice Over Internet Protocol Software." Here's a link to this new discussion/self support group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SkyPe-Software/
Imagine how overwhelming the computational task will be for decoding just 1000 simultaneous Skype voice phone calls with 256 bit encryption. Surely this won't be welcomed by national security agencies accustomed to performing mass voice to text conversion on "private" phone calls, then applying text interpretive algorithms to select those most interesting for human review. With enormous concealed government budgets, security agencies have seemed to be gaining on their goal of breaching personal privacy by electronic communication, given the sustained 18 month per computational power doubling rate. But Skype's very design appears to have made that goal almost unreachable. Wide adoption of Skype would cause the flow of 256 bit encoded traffic to undergo many doublings within a few months.
My Skype calling name is the easily remembered "lovelearn" should you ever want to chat. Obviously I don't want that referenced in any widely read articles or this new interest could dominate my time responding to calls.
I'd be delighted if you'd join this group and give it a boost by mentioning it where it seems fitting. It would be wonderful to have one or two of the Skype team principals join so they could occasionally field questions. We'd be happy to run any information gathering polls addressing questions about which they'd like to have user feedback. As soon as this new group appears in the listings, which requires human review and approval, I expect membership will grow rapidly.
All the best to you and thanks for your consideration,
John
(Please do not post my full name as I prefer to retain some privacy. I started one other newsgroup, Audi-VW-Diesels which now has 531 subscribers and over 14,000 archived messages. I'm certain this new Skype group will rapidly exceed that membership number.)
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