> If you can get jailed for speech, you can get jailed for encryption. Not in any democratic country. How can you prove that I'm using encryption? How you ev

> If you can get jailed for speech, you can get jailed for encryption. Not in any democratic country. How can you prove that I'm using encryption? How you even define what encryption is to make it possible to have a law that bans it? If me and you we put down a code to communicate, is that encryption and thus banned? Also you wouldn't need to ban encryption completely. There are cases where encryption is required by law (e.g. digital signature on documents) and others where the encryption is required for things to work (e.g. credit cards, mobile phones, etc). You have to put down a list of cases where you can use encryption and others where you can't. That is nearly impossible.