High Performance P2P+F2F Network Engine, Mainly for Persistent MMO Game Worlds
With popular P2P networks such as Tor, BitTorrent and Bitcoin featured in the news almost every day, and F2F networks such as CJDNS and RetroShare becoming very popular despite their unstable bleeding edge nature, it has become increasingly obvious that not everyone is enamored with the Cloud this and Cloud that.
As an alternative to Cloud Gaming, one that respects the privacy and security of gamers and game developers, and reflects Open Culture methods and principles, it has becoming increasingly evident that P2P networks must be developed to accomidate huge persistent virtual worlds, such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games and 3D virtual worlds similar to Second Life, Avination or OpenSim to facilitate a free and open Internet.
With NSA and HLS abuses becoming daily news, illegal wiretapping, extrajudicial secret kangaroo courts and black prisons and internment camps, Guatanamo Bay being synonymous with concentration camps, and all manner abuses and crimes against humanity both culpable and liable by the State, it is becoming increasingly obvious that even everyday average citizens must participate daily in markets that are unregulatable, uncensorable, undetectable, uninterceptable and uncontrollable by design.
The architecture of such a network usually consists of a mixture of Tor, I2P, Babel or Batman underground adhoc wifi, or even illicitly-buried twisted pair or coaxial cables, sometimes wired through secret tunnels.
All of this would never need to exist in a free society. Thus, we do not live in a free society. We live, yet again, under the steel-toed jackboots of tyrrany.
The tree of liberty thirsts for the blood of tyrants. It's well beyond time to water her.
The short answer is "don't be a target." If there is no high-value strategic target to commandeer and use as a honey-pot (a type of trap related to an ambush), or high-value individual targets that can be located and neutralized.
The long answer is to evade identification, location and capture by using a mixture of time-tested and proven techniques often used by drug cartels, moonshiners, child pornographers, terrorists, insurrectionists, organized crime and identity thieves, as well as some newer technologies and methodologies, as countereconomics and counterculture is constantly evolving.
As far as the Fox Engine is concerned, multiple layers of indirection and redirection helps to frustrate attempts to identity and locate valuable targets for interception and capture, by using a more recent form of onion routing, high-performance location-aware and mobile-friendly routing and switching, and advanced caching and content distribution schemes similar to Freenet or GNUnet only fast and efficient.
The future of black marketeering and buying and selling products of which the State does not approve is by trading locally, person-to-person. Using clandestine tunnels and neighborhood adhoc wifi, you can make the jobs of State enforcers a very difficult and migrane-inducing endeavor.
These clandestine networks can be very affordable even for the underclass, and can carry a surprisingly large amount of information with some clever routing and clever caching schemes.
Without the Fox Engine, you can route using Batman and Babel, which has negligible overhead, using plug computers, fixed wireless and ordinary telephone wire. Even simple USB dialup modems can offer a surprisingly large amount of bandwidth, although I'd still advise using minimalistic protocols such as Usenet, Gopher and IRC.
For Usenet, I'd recommend using both TLS and PGP email and newsgroup post encryption. Often, simply signing newsgroup posts can offer a lot of privacy, especially if you are careful who you give your PGP public key to, and how you go about doing it. RetroShare can also offer a lot of this functionality.
As for routing, I recommend multi-layered Network Address Translation, possibly using an alternative IS-IS and BGP addressspace. The idea is to deliberately make it incompatible with the Internet, using chains of open HTTP CONNECT proxies (open only on the inside, not the outside, to help thwart anti-proxy filtering), to gateway out.
Optionally, VPN tunnels using quicktun (I recommend using libNACL cryptography), OpenVPN, Tinc or (if available) IPsec. These tunnels can help bridge across difficult areas, while maintaining some semblance of privacy and security.
Another option as an alternative to BGP and IS-IS routing (and a partial alternative to Batman and Babel) might be CJDNS, which is fast and efficient, and automated to a large extent, although it is bleeding edge software, and should not be relied on for anything really important.
To conclude, the Fox Engine provides a more cohesive, comprehensive, automated and integrated network stack intended to provide extremely bandwidth-conservative routing, content distribution and location-aware application-layer functions and services. Existing software can do this to some extent, but is not trivial to configure or use for individuals who are not seasoned system and network administration professionals.