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I sorta imagine that it's due to Roddenbury being in his 70s when TNG started, the internet wasn't a thing, and lots of earlier military encryption was a variation of private key encryption, where a book of keys or cipher methods would chill on the flagship until a message was sent.
I guess that quantum computing could be a thing in the 24th century. Supposedly quantum cryptography (using light waves as keys) is literally impossible to crack, but now I'm just being pedantic.
In the 1970s they didn't have encrypted live audio video communication in outer space which is what they're showing in Star Trek. It was literally future technology until the last couple decades. And now we can do it all the time since our computer CPUs have it built in.