Hello! The tl;dr is: IoT is a totally new arena for privacy and security, and existing best practices either don't work well for eg. playing with a Raspberry Pi, or require trusting companies like Facebook with access to your baby monitors. I want to play with my Pi, and I don't particularly like Facebook etc, so I started working on an alternative.

Golix is an end-to-end encrypted, open protocol that enforces privacy at something approximating layer 5 (not exactly though... Golix doesn't lend itself to easy comparisons with the modern web). Roughly speaking, it's PGP with key encapsulation totally separate from data encapsulation, and everything statically hash addressed and routed by public key fingerprint instead of IP address. That also makes it really powerful (including, for example, seamless LAN fallback when your internet goes out).

Ideals are great, but privacy is mostly only a secondary market concern. Hypergolix is built on top of Golix, with the goal of presenting a compelling economic argument for using the protocol. Put plainly; IoT development is a pain in the ass, and Hypergolix substantially decreases time to market for developing new applications. In the short term, I'm focusing on the Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, etc.

I'm happy to answer any questions and looking forward to the feedback. If you think the project is worthwhile, please consider contributing to our OpenCollective!

Some more information:

https://opencollective.com/golix (for monetary support; also backers will have access to a private pre-alpha release)

https://github.com/Muterra/doc-golix (protocol documentation; includes a security whitepaper)

https://github.com/Muterra/py_golix (protocol implementation)

https://hypergolix.com/ (join the mailing list)

https://github.com/Muterra/py_hypergolix (full Hypergolix source code)