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A decryption algorithm is developed that is somehow proven to be able to crack any code, no matter how secure, in a small amount of time

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Such a decryption algorithm would completely destroy the internet. You couldn't protect anything. As soon as some idiot wants to wreck something, it is wrecked.

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One the other hand having no encryption would allow anyone easy access to everything, even if the programmers didn't make any mistakes. Having no encryption, I think, would help those who are already powerful. The reason being that the easiest way to attack something becomes the man-in-the-middle. Just intercept packets and you know everything two computers are sending each other. And who can best do man-in-the-middle attacks? People who run the middle - internet service providers and telecommunications companies.

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