Oh? interesting, so that’s the ip of skype’s dead server huh? edit: pinged it, i got the same result too
Do you still have it? if so, upload it here pls
i’ll look
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Can’t Find It, Sorry Dude… I’ll try and find the link
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yep, it’s gone, sorry dude
Gone? so it was deleted basically, are you sure that it was on github?
I think the possible confusion here is the wrong version being mentioned. The later versions of Skype technically can still sign in because they use the same infrastructure as Teams Personal. However, they don’t work very well and I don’t find it all that usable.
Try this instead (courtesy of @ErrorOliver)
- Add
config.edge.skype.comandget.skype.comto your hosts file with the IP 0.0.0.0.
If you want a graphical interface way of doing that, there is a hosts file editor in the Powertoys. Adding these will block Windows from connecting to these hosts. - You can also add
edge.skype.com, but I haven’t found that one necessary. - Download Skype version 8.138.0.213.exe. It’s digitally signed and has not been modified.
- Sign in to Skype.
As eeky already mentioned, calls will go through, but in my experience, messaging does not work at all. It can also take a while to get signed in the first time.
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Good luck with that.
That is the old Escargot address, which isn’t active anymore. Escargot does not have a Skype service regardless.
Escargot’s Skype project has migrated to CrossTalk.
ICMP =/= a running service.
Btw, skype’s website is still active too, this means that you can change your profile’s description, name, add email or number and etc.
Told You! You’re Welcome!
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However, there are no accounts, only bots, maybe microsoft took care of all accounts already? possible
I pinged it and i couldnt get any response.
For many years (decades?) Microsoft’s websites didn’t reply back to ping/ICMP requests to avoid denial of service attacks. It’s only been in the last while that their policy has changed and a lot of their IPs still don’t reply (especially on IPv4).
To further what HIDEN has already said, unfortunately this test this doesn’t mean much, it only means something with that hostname exists and is replying. A real test would need to use a different tool (ie. telnet or curl) with the appropriate host/port/service/URI/etc. (skype.com is not where skype or teams personal operates from).
ok that makes me wonder
is crosstalk’s server by itself the rewritten escargot server that was originally announced many years ago? or is it something else
Nah.
The main person working on Escargot’s Skype server (@epicness) is now a part of CrossTalk’s team, and his work will continue there.
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What HIDEN said. I’ve taken much of my existing work and expanded on it with the goal of documenting the reverse engineering process (there’s a lot of it, if you’ve ever looked into earlier Skype’s inner workings lol).
The urban legend is that classic Skype is impossible to bring back - it’s very, very hard, and takes a lot of reverse engineering and research work, but I think the progress I’ve made already shows that it isn’t impossible.
And, for those of you that haven’t seen yet:
Skype 6.16 at least somewhat talks to the login server (but doesn’t like my credentials packet):
FakeSkype (third-party Skype 2.5 clone) accepts my credentials (so at least I’m doing something right lol):
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What should I do since I’m new to this site?
I figure I should add (I’ve had multiple people ask me for access/etc.) - this is not in a state that it is even remotely feasible to do anything meaningful with - at this point the authentication flow isn’t even 100% finished (I’d say more like 70-80%). Although I’d say at least in Skype 6/MSNP territory that it’s the hardest part of the protocol.
I’m working on some other things (personal stuff, as well as trying to find a cybersecurity job and doing some other reversing/cybersecurity projects, and also other CrossTalk-related stuff), so blocking out time for anything in particular has been a bit difficult. This is moreso being posted as a “proof of concept” that Skype isn’t totally unbreakable, for now - but it will eventually become a full fledged service. And once that happens it will be publicly released. No paywalls or anything like that. And there will most likely be no “early access” before release (if I do bring on testers, they will be people who I personally know are more on the technical side and can debug things on their end as needed.)
Many people over the years, including even myself at one point, saw classic Skype as an “impenetrable fortress” of sorts and said it would be near-impossible for someone to bring it back. The information exists, but it’s scattered all over the internet, sometimes in quite a few different languages. You’ll probably also need a solid knowledge of C, and you’ll need to know your way around a debugger and disassembler really well, but it’s 100% possible to make progress.
I’ll bring updates as I have them but I have a lot going on in life so… stay tuned I guess?
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