Top 7 C Messaging Projects

magma

1 1,797 10.0 C

The magma server daemon, is an encrypted email system with support for SMTP, POP, IMAP, HTTP and MOLTEN,. Additional support for DMTP and DMAP is currently in active development. (by lavabit)

Project mention: Magma: Open-source carrier-grade wireless networking platform for rural areas | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-12-03

If you're having déjà vu, it's because there is also an encrypted email service called Magma:
https://github.com/lavabit/magma
profanity

9 1,161 8.8 C

Ncurses based XMPP client

Project mention: IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-11-20
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wickr-crypto-c

2 357 2.1 C

An implementation of the Wickr Secure Messaging Protocol in C

Project mention: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-06-16

Very, I know people who work there, they open sourced their crypto engine [1]. They also struggle with people using WickrMe for bad stuff because of how little info they collect from users (no phone required, true e2ee encryption, and so on...) [2].Own by Amazon doesn't imply that have spyware embedded, unless you can prove, not defending Amazon by any means, there is plenty to criticize and condemn about them, I'm just stating facts.
1- https://github.com/WickrInc/wickr-crypto-c
2- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/10/wickr-amazons-encrypted-chat...
lurch

0 278 0.0 C

XEP-0384: OMEMO Encryption for libpurple.
slack-libpurple

3 267 4.4 C

Slack module for libpurple

Project mention: Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-03-05

Eion Robb has done an incredible amount of work in this space. His GitHub page[1] has tons of plugins, and I particularly appreciate the work he has done on the Matrix plugin to make it available to Windows users.
Lest you think this is less than cool because you don't use Pidgin, bitlbee[2] is a great tool to get slack (and others!) into your IRC client. I haven't run it myself, but I know that it heavily relies on purple[3] for its magic. I can tell it gets a lot of use, perusing the issues on the slack purple plugin[4] for example.
1: https://github.com/EionRobb?tab=repositories
2: https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html
3: https://wiki.bitlbee.org/
4: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple/issues?q=is%3Aissue...
ToxAndroidRefImpl

0 225 9.2 C

Tox Reference implementation for Android
teonet-c

1 2 7.2 C

Teonet v5 C library and examples

Project mention: Teonet C library | dev.to | 2022-06-08

We are waiting your support! Please give stars to our Teonet-c and Teonet projects in Github.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-03-05.