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Seems cool at first glance! I've never heard of Handshake, will be looking at that more in particular.

So I see the address in the screenshot starts with federalist://

Is it possible to access these sites with a normal web browser from the internet too?

Thank you!

I do think there is a way - since the beautiful WebTorrent (https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent) can do so in browser. I'm keen to see something like this in a normal web browser (if possible as an extension even), hopefully developed by someone with better skills than me haha!

from the look of it, you will need to have the handshake resolver installed and replaced as your local dns resolver. With that it will return you a the public key address on the bittorrent DHT which can be solved by some torrent client.

There it should have a torrent info payload that your client can turn into a ordinary torrent, where you can proceed to download the files, and can open in your browser on your local filesystem.

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