The
Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure
is based upon a set of construction materials called PKI.
Bruce Schneier illustrates why the fundamental technology behind PKI is so special:"In real-world terms, it allows you and a friend to shout numbers at each other across a crowded coffeehouse filled with mathematicians so that when you are done, both you and your friend know the same random number, and everyone else in the coffeehouse is completely clueless.
If this sounds ridiculous, it should. It sounds impossible. If you were to survey the world’s cryptographers in 1975 they would have told you it was impossible."
-Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
What is QEI?
The Quiet Enjoyment Infrastructure is a set of methods, procedures, and standards for fixing the Internet.
Because, let's face it, The Internet is broken.
People tend to look to security technologists for solutions to security problems. The latest effort to fix the Internet, The Clean Slate Design, presents advanced construction materials technology.
The technologists have done their job well. The set of construction materials upon which we build our solution to Internet problems is called ID-PKI, which was conceived in a flourish of new ideas that developed around what has been called public key infrastructure (PKI) when that technology was invented in the 1970's.
