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We've been shown time and again that strong encryption puts crims behind bars, so why do politicos hate it?

Dr Paul Taylor
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many times the data size

The downside is that it requires many times the data size of the hidden encrypted data

You mean, like modern 1MB HTML-encrypted emails, containing the same information as the 1kb plain text ones we wrote in the 1980s?

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