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

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:
> 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.

I went ahead and created a Skype page on the Wiki[1], mainly to keep 
track of this new link and an older white paper on the protocol.  Of 
course if you make progress half the page will have to be rewritten, but 
that would be pretty short work ;-).

[1] http://wiki.wireshark.org/Skype