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I'm fairly sure what you mean is, traffic is decrypted in the middle and the re-encrypted before it gets sent your way. Otherwise they couldn't do proxying or threat detection/mitigation for you.
You're right, sorry, that was a heavy brain fart. The data needs to be decrypted on cloudflare's end before being proxied and send to your services.