If I had to explain the basics of "information" and "communication" to average people, I would say something like this. There is no difference in the communica

If I had to explain the basics of "information" and "communication" to average people, I would say something like this. There is no difference in the communication over the internet, over the letter mail, or verbal communication with voice. The encryption can be used in any form of communication. And the problem of banning it is always the same. Banning the encryption is impossible simply because detecting the encryption is impossible. When you see two persons on the street, one says that the weather is nice, and the other responds that the grass is green, you can never know if there is some hidden message in their communication. Encrypted information can always be "tunneled" through unencrypted channels. Even if you ban all computer apps with encryption, you ban people from making own apps, make every person wear a microphone and a camera 24/7, there will always be a way to deliver information from one person to another without anybody else knowing about it. Actually, banning encryption apps may be good for privacy, because you never know if the app maker made some backdoors in their encryption method and he already sells your information to somebody.