> … even if we standardize encryption ….

> Government having a master encryption key doesn’t bother me as much as it does many other people.

The problem is that all you can standardize is the basic encryption of the phone, you can’t also limit its ability to use new software implementing different forms of encryption that don’t have backdoors. The so called government master key would just lead into a house with locked doors for which it doesn’t have keys. Good luck making sure that all encryption products have backdoors and no one, not even terrorists, create new encryption software that is secure.

The only effect of lessening the default phone encryption would be to put the population and government at risk. All those millions of people working for the state in various positions also use the same phones. The security of the general population is linked to the security of the state.