I think we can all agree on that, however because all the big companies who hire experts and provide cryptography services, like Microsoft, Blackberry, Apple and Google, seem willing to give back doors to intelligence services in many countries and undermine the point of using cryptography, there are not many open choices left. I wouldn't really trust a project like the one linked, and see why people have reservations about it. Which projects would you recommend, as I'm genuinely interested? I use GPG for my own limited use, but would love to see a project for end to end encryption for email for example which also handles plain emails. The trick is in getting other people to use it, and that's all in the interface I think, not the cryptography.

I do think (as a sometime user of cryptography for mundane uses) it's worth having other options, and that will mean quite a few partially broken offerings as it's apparently a very subtle and complex topic and very easy to get wrong - I don't see any way round that if use becomes widespread - even the users will undermine it by mistake by not protecting keys etc. However without widespread adoption and easier interfaces for open cryptography, we won't have any choices but very secure encryption which is pre-signed with an NSA_KEY or otherwise backdoored for the NSA's convenience.