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The referenced language requires that manufacturers build trap-doors into all cryptographic equipment and that providers of cconfidential channels reserve to themselves, their agents, and assigns the ability to read all traffic. David Kahn asserts that the sovereign always attempts to reserve the use of cryptography to himself. Nonetheless, if this language were to be enacted into law, it would represent a major departure. Mr. Biden and Mr. DeConcini want to mandate them. Both justifications rest upon appeals to fear.