Jabber Servers

CAcert does not maintain a Jabber server (as yet). Some known servers:

Rooms

Let me (writes Mati) take you up on that. The room is created, its JID is:

Jabber Clients

Many clients support Jabber:

Pidgin[1] is the default in most Linux installations and is also available for Windows. Use Accounts->Add (choose protocol "XMPP") to add an account ("Resource" can be anything). Then choose Buddies->"Join a Chat" to join the room cacert at server jabber.fsinf.at (no password required!).

For Adium (a good IM client for Mac OS X) just select File -> Join group chat... -> Roomname: cacert, Server conference.fsinf.at -> Join.

Some other clients that support Jabber are

Hundreds of Jabber Clients exist. To make your experience a bit easier, we have a small list with a few popular clients:

Client

Platform (OS)

License

Interface

Client Certificate

PKCS#11

URL

Notes

Adium

OS X

GPL 2

http://www.adium.im/

Equivalent to Pidgin on Linux/Windows

Pidgin

Linux/Win

http://www.pidgin.im

Ships with most Linux distributions

Gajim

Linux/Win

GTK2

http://www.gajim.org

Very good Jabber support

Psi

Linux/OS X/Win

http://psi-im.org

Kopete

Linux

QT

http://kopete.kde.org/

mcabber

Linux

ncurses

http://mcabber.com/

Doesn't use SSL by default. Cannot register accounts, you need another client for that.

finch

See notes

ncurses?

?

Pidgin with a command-line interface. Plattforms: same as Pidgin?

Miranda

Win

http://www.miranda-im.org/

CenterIM

Linux

ncurses

http://www.centerim.org/

iChat

OS X

-

Included in OS X. Cannot register accounts, you need another client for that.

Note: I've excluded the SSL column because most clients use TLS/SSL by default anyway. If a client doesn't use TLS/SSL by default or doesn't support it, please note it in the "Notes" column (perhaps in bold?)

See also