Comparison of instant messaging protocols: Difference between revisions

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A brief list

3GPP standards

Bitmessage

Bonjour

Briar

Discord

Echo

Gadu-Gadu

IRC

Jami

LINE

MSNP

MTProto

Matrix

Mattermost

Mumble

OSCAR (AIM,ICQ)

RVP (Windows messenger, etc.)

Richochet

SIP/SIMPLE

Serval projekt

Signal protocol

Skype

Steam friends

TOC2

TOX (Based on DHT)

Threema

Tuenti

Windows Messenger service

XMPP

YMSG

Zephyr

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{{short description|Wikimedia list article}}

The following is a '''comparison of instant messaging protocols'''. It contains basic general information about the protocols.

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! {{rh}} | [[3GPP|3GPP standards]]

| [[Friedhelm Hillebrand]]

| 1985

| [[Proprietary protocol|Proprietary]]

| Phone number (e.g. [phone])

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| About 250 contacts in SIM, unlimited from phone.

| {{No}}

| serial messages

| {{partial|Medium}}

| {{No}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|[[3G-324M]]/[[ViLTE]]}}

| {{yes|[[Rich Communication Services|RCS]]}}

| {{No}}

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! [[3GPP|3GPP standards]]

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! {{rh}} |[[Bitmessage]]

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| {{Yes}}

![[Briar (software)|Briar]]

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! [[Discord (software)|Discord]]

| Discord Inc.

| 2015 May 13

| [[Proprietary protocol|Proprietary]]

| Discord ID<ref>{{Cite web|title=Where can I find my User/Server/Message ID?|url=https://support.discord.com/hc/pl/articles/206346498-Where-can-I-find-my-User-Server-Message-ID-|website=discord.com|language=en}}</ref>

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| {{no}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Increase the Discord FRIENDS List Limits from 1000 to 2000 or more!|url=https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4407590964247-Increase-the-Discord-FRIENDS-List-Limits-from-1000-to-2000-or-more-</ref>

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| {{partial|Medium}}

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! {{rh}} class="table-rh" | [[Echo (communications protocol)|Echo]]

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| {{partial|Under development<ref>{{cite web |title=Introducing P2P Matrix |url=https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix |website=matrix.org |publisher=The Matrix.org Foundation |access-date=19 June 2021}}</ref>}}

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| 2015 October 2

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! {{rh}} class="table-rh" |[[Microsoft Notification Protocol|MSNP]] ([[Windows Live Messenger]], etc.)

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| {{No}}

![[Mumble (software)|Mumble]]

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| [[Line Corporation]]

| 2011 June 23

| [[Proprietary protocol|Proprietary]]

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! {{rh}} class="table-rh" |[[OSCAR protocol|OSCAR]] ([[AOL Instant Messenger|AIM]], [[ICQ]])

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| Windows Active Directory Login

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

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![[Steam (service)|Steam Friends]]

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|TeamSpeak Systems GmbH

|2001 Aug

|[[Proprietary protocol|Proprietary]]

|Unique ID in base64

| {{No}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{dunno}}

| {{dunno}}

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! {{rh}} |[[TOC protocol|TOC2]]

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|Threema GmbH

|2012 December

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! {{rh}} |[[Tox (protocol)|TOX]] (based on [[Distributed hash table|DHT]])

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| [[Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol|Jabber ID]] (JID)<br />e.g. usr@a.b.c/home{{efn|name=fn_2}}

| {{Yes}}

| {{Yes}}<ref>{{cite web|title=XEP-0368: SRV records for XMPP over TLS|url=https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0368.html}}</ref>

| {{Yes}}

| {{Optional}}<ref>{{cite web|title=XEP-0027: Current Jabber OpenPGP Usage|url=https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0027.html|website=xmpp.org|access-date=2020-03-09|date=2014-03-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=XEP-0373: OpenPGP for XMPP|url=https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0373.html|website=xmpp.org|access-date=2020-03-09|date=2018-07-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=XEP-0384: OMEMO Encryption|url=https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0384.html|website=xmpp.org|access-date=2020-03-09|date=2018-07-31}}</ref>

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![[Zephyr (protocol)|Zephyr Notification Service]]

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! {{rh}} |[[SMS]]/[[Multimedia Messaging Service|MMS]]/[[Enhanced Messaging Service|EMS]]/Call

| [[Friedhelm Hillebrand]]

| 1985

| [[Proprietary protocol|Proprietary]]

| Phone number (e.g. [phone])

| {{Yes}}

| {{No}}

| {{No}}

| About 250 contacts in SIM, unlimited from phone.

| {{No}}

| serial messages

| {{partial|Medium}}

| {{No}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes|[[3G-324M]]/[[ViLTE]]}}

| {{yes|[[Rich Communication Services|RCS]]}}

| {{No}}

| {{dunno}}

! [[SMS]]

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