Re: Shared-Secret similar algorithm

[David Honig]

At 07:27 PM 5/14/01 -0700, David Honig wrote:
>At 02:28 PM 5/14/01 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>
>>What the _hell_ is the point of a shared secret scheme where you can
>>reconstruct the secret with only one key??
>>
>
>Interesting question.  There have been times when I've sent 
>email and not encrypted it to myself, and later wanted to 
>read it, but not wanted to bother the recipient.

Before you roast me, I admit I misread that question, the question is about
shared secrets and I wrote about secret/public key combos.  Still,
aren't secret keys shared amongst communicants a subset of shared secrets?