It remembers me when someone proposed that IPv6 encryption should become optional and the proposal was accepted. If we had IPv6 encrypted by now, things would be a little bit different ...
And networks would be harder to debug, unless you happened to work for the comsec utility or the NSA and already had all the decryption keys.
Let me suggestion using IPv7 where encryption is also optional, but at least happens to use the same ecdsa keys you use for your money to encrypt packets if you so desire.
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I absolutely don't see the point that justifies debugging network problems to be a bigger concern than the privacy of everyone in the world. Debugging be damned.
We should move to quantum-proof crypto, ECDSA is merely a stopgap.
Most people will happily trade privacy for some 'free stuff'. Encrypting things nobody cares about hiding seems like a losing battle not worth fighting. 'De-bugging' is also de-bugging and removal of surveilance devices. If everything (including the network path my data takes) is encrypted, then I have no real ability to know if it's being tapped, redirected, or misdirected.