Reverse engineering Skype
February 27 2010, 3:34 PM
Fascinating (yes, old - 2006 - but still fascinating) presentation on reverse engineering Skype [pdf] (via HN).
In the process you can learn about different tools:- Scapy - a powerful interactive packet manipulation program
- Rasta Ring 0 Debugger
- PytStop is a debugging engine written in Python
- plus lots of stuff on http://secdev.org/