--- Michael Holstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a mechanism to use HTTPS to > > preencrypt web pages so that they > > are encrypted on the server (and so the > > server does not have the keys to decrypt > > them!) > > Not using HTTPS per-se, but you can use SSL to > encrypt files.
Agreed. > > My initial constraints are that once the data > > is put on the server that no one except for > > the intended recipient could decrypt it, > > including the original poster, server admin... > > Or, to basically do with HTTP what GPG does with > email. The original > poster would necessarily need to have access to the > plaintext, as they > would need to encrypt it with the end-user's public > keys (each of them > individually). Yes, but they should be able to discard it once it is encrypted. (see #5 in my reply to Jonathan D. Proulx) > I'm not a mathematician, but it can't be wise to > store multiple copies > of the same plaintext encrypted by the same cipher > using different keys > .. much crypto has historically been broken that > way. Well, I think that is exactly what you will get if you use pgp or gpg to send an encrypted email to multiple recipients. -Martin ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs