Posted by David Dorward on 06/08/05 10:24

Michael Winter wrote:

> On 07/06/2005 22:26, David Dorward wrote:

>> As far as I know, any proxy won't get to see the data in clear
>> text, so it can't cache it for another local user.

> It shouldn't need to see plaintext though, should it?

Adam requests page from Proxy which gets it from Remote Site.
The data is encrypted using Adam's key.
Bob requests the same page. Bob doesn't have Adam's key. If the Proxy
provided a cached copy of the data it retrieved for Adam, then Bob wouldn't
be able to decrypt it.

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