Bug 227451

Summary: steam friends protocol support in kopete
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Mathias Panzenböck <grosser.meister.morti>
Component: generalAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: adam
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Mathias Panzenböck 2010-02-18 00:23:54 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

I know it is much to ask but I really would like to have support for the steam friends protocol. This is used by the steam game platform and can be used from within steam games. Because I have friends that tend to only use steam this would help me to continue to talk to them (even though they have icq accounts but they don't use them anymore!).

Here is some basic information about the protocol:
http://imfreedom.org/wiki/Steam_Friends

Insanely they really reinvent the wheel and implement a tcp like protocol on top of udp. Only this basic protocol, the encryption setup (RSA, AES, CBC) and the login process seems to be reverse engineered.

I never done such a thing (reverse engineering and implementation of real world (lowlevel!) network protocols) but maybe if(!) I have time in summer I take a look at it. (But probably not.)
Comment 1 Mathias Panzenböck 2010-02-18 00:39:16 UTC 
Maybe the same feature request for libpurple/pidgin could be of use (information source):
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3987
Comment 2 Frank Souza 2012-11-30 13:08:11 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:27:20 UTC 
Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.