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I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

In cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to uphold security for one's own country by sacrificing that of others.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.

The Internet is a worldwide platform for sharing information. It is a community of common interests. No country is immune to such global challenges as cybercrime, hacking, and invasion of privacy.

People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.

The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.