From: "snow" <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:15:23 +0800
To: dpj@world.std.com (David Jablon)
Subject: Re: Monkey Wrench into the works
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> On 8/27/97, James A. Donald replied paraphrasing Ben Franklin,
> (who really knew very little about cryptography):
> >What one man knows, nobody knows.
> >What two men know, everyone knows.
> >Shared secrets just don't work.
> 
> Clearly in many cases parties must share secrets.
> You and your bank keep mutual secrets about your money.

	Execpt that the bank lets the government in on it. 

> You and your doctor keep mutually secret medical data.

	Execpt in certain circumstances, when the doctor is 
legally bound to report your illness. Or when your chart is handled
by 20 or 30 people in a hospital. Or when the doctor makes a remark
to his lover/wife/mistress/boyfriend about your case.