<-- home February 22, 2017. @pfrazee Configure the variables in this post $YOUR_DNS $YOUR_DAT $YOUR_EMAIL As of Beaker Browser 0.6.1 , you can visit Dat sites using DNS shortnames: This is accomplished with DNS-over-HTTPS, and made simple with DatHTTPD . DatHTTPD serves Web sites over HTTPS and Dat with automatic TLS certificates. DNS shortnames for Dat were not possible until Beaker 0.6.1 . We needed a secure way to transmit a DNS mapping for non-HTTPS sites. Originally we used DNS TXT records, but the lack of authentication made the lookup easy to MITM. We considered DNSSEC, but due to limited deployment and difficult setup, we felt that was the wrong solution. We opted for DNS-over-HTTPS instead. How it works. When a Dat URL with a shortname such as dat:// is loaded, Beaker makes a GET request to https:// /.well-known/dat. The response lo...