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Re: SSL trends

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On 9/23/2016 1:02 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 20:18:10 -0400, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
> wrote:
>
>>> 4. caching is turned off
>>
>> Wrong.
>
> If you have two users accessing the same page, but it is a secret what
> they are accessing, how can a cache possibly share that page?
>
> Obviously you can do things like disk caching on the server using the
> unencrypted form, but once the page is encrypted, e.g. the first page
> of an online newspaper, it is not going to get cached by a the IAP
> from its local cache.

The browser can and do cache pages retrieved via HTTPS.

It can be cached server side as well. That is done by terminating
SSL in front on the cache server. That is quite common.

The only cache that is not possible is an intermediate
cache somewhere in the middle of the network. I don't think
I have heard about that being used on this side of year 2000.

Arne

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SSL trends Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-09-15 13:55 -0700
  Re: SSL trends Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-09-15 20:18 -0400
    Re: SSL trends Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-09-22 21:58 -0700
      Re: SSL trends Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-09-24 18:25 -0400
    Re: SSL trends Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-09-22 22:02 -0700
      Re: SSL trends Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-09-24 18:29 -0400
  Re: SSL trends Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2016-09-19 23:15 +0200

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