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You may be talking about iodine: https://code.kryo.se/iodine/

You can host it yourself.

Unrelated comment: I like this sort of web design. Might just be nostalgia. It reminds me of web design circa 2001 or so. You can see many similar examples on OSWD, e.g.:

http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/9/

http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3/

http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/6/

http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/45/

At some point I had a binary for the iodine client stored as DNS records, and another DNS record with a shell script that would fetch and decode them.

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