I don’t understand how they could ban strong encryption when everyone is gearing up for quantum resistance for blockchain technology. Once you have a distributed quantum resistant system good luck on that. There are so many ways this isn’t practical. If everyone just traded back and forth weakly encrypted garbage data chunks it would be indistinguishable from strong encryption. Also you can encrypt something with weak encryption, chunk the file then send them out in two directions and unless you have both or the chunking mechanism is really shitty that would be just as good as one single strong encryption stream. There’s just too many factors to cover for this to be practical. It’s fighting with mathematics and it’s a losing battle
If anything strong encryption gives better support of outlawing it, from a governments perspective.
The fact that you can be a lawless individual and ignore it and obfuscate everything has no bearing on the legality of it. But it does mean that if they suspect you are doing anything illegal they don't have to figure out if you and what you are doing, since your obfuscation is enough to send you to jail.
I think you missed my point. Unless they make it illegal to transmit garbage data then there is no legal leg to stand on for prosecuting the use of encryption
