En:xmpp

At this time, we have two distinct messaging services available for you:

Matrix is a decentralised, real-time, open-source communication network. It takes advantage of full client to client encryption and has a comparable usage to services like Whatsapp etc., but without all the privacy horrors attached.

You can login to the service via https://element.matrix.informatik.uni-bonn.de. You need a computer science/b-it account to login there (username/password). There are mobile Clients available, i.e. for Android or Apple IOS. Our Matrix Domain is called “matrix.informatik.uni-bonn.de”.

Users in our Domain can be referenced in the following format: “@username:matrix.informatik.uni-bonn.de”

A classic messaging service based on XMPP/Jabber is to be found on our server “xmpp.informatik.uni-bonn.de”. A rudimentary webplatform is available here, but a native XMPP-Client would be a better choice for connecting.

Please use “<username>@xmpp.informatik.uni-bonn.de” and your central computer science paswort for authorization to our xmpp server. If your client cannot retrieve the connection parameters from DNS, your can issue the following parameters: