Chinese Skype Hype

The Chinese Skype clone report is a media hype or a real is yet to be known as the real proof for the claim is still not available in public. But a detailed scientific study on the inner-workings of Skype and how to reverse engineer it ( Silver Needle in the Skype ) was already presented before at the Blackhat Europe conference a few months ago by Philippe Biondi and Fabrice Desclaux.

Another excellent analysis of the underlying cryptographic protocols by Tom Berson can be found here.