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Issue 1: Establishing lots of reasons why people should encrypt

Issue 2: Making it easy to encrypt

Issue 3: Popularizing encryption or getting more people to do it

Issue 3.. most/many governments are taking active steps to discourage this practice or better still (for them), stamp it out completely.

For example, you can make it illegal to create ciphers longer than a certain value or not use the magic constants specified in the NSA specification in your algorithm.

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