> government's security for the master key will certainly be much better It's foolish to assume this after Snowden was able to walk away with his archive of cl

> government's security for the master key will certainly be much better It's foolish to assume this after Snowden was able to walk away with his archive of classified documents. In his case, storing that many documents within the reach of one person risked losing the entire archive, which is exactly what happened. If literally everything depends on a government held escrow key, You've painted a target on a huge single-point failure.