I ran the Cryptopals challenges. I have been sent AES implemented in 4 different assemblies, Julia before it was launched, pure Excel spreadsheet formulae, and a Postscript file.
There must be beauties in there;-). Even so, the fact that it's called Cryptopals indicates a public having some basic level of care about crypto. The non-it person hacking an excel macro together to get some job done has a very different attitude, and they do run their stuff in production.
The public should have a basic level of understanding and care of crypto. The logic of those challenges is that encouraging people to break cryptography is always prosocial; building it is a little more complicated, in the same sense as surgery.
