Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Skype protocol dissector

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hallo Matthias,

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 10:47:56AM +0200, Matthias Bock wrote:
> there is a project at GitHub,
> uncovering the protocol structure of Skype.
> Currently only UDP is documented (there is also
> a TCP component somehow).
> 
> https://github.com/matthiasbock/OpenSkype/wiki/Skype's-UDP-Format
> 
> Documentation is not completed, but quite far
> and dissecting (and decrypting) pcap captures
> using Python on the console already works.
> 
> The "next step" would be to implement a Wireshark
> dissector for "SkypeUDP".
> 
> I have no idea, how to do this ...
> Anybody here who would like to help me? ;-)

Sure. Will implement something this WE. I will not implement any type of
detection, i.e. you will have to click on a packet and then select "decode as",
but apart from that, this sounds like my sort of fun.

Ciao
    Jörg

PS: I hang out on #wireshark on irc - obviously idle most of the time.
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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