Why does OAuth provide both an access token and an access token secret? Why not just a single value?

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Published on 2010-04-29T20:27:35Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 5:47 UTC
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Why does OAuth include both an access token and an access token secret as two separate values? As a consumer or OAuth, all of the recommendations that I have seen indicate that I should store the token and secret together and essentially treat them as one value.

So why does the specification require two values in the first place?

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