Is there a way to make a stroke transparent, including over the stroke of another shape?

[jimBO8]

As the title says, I am struggling to find a way to have a circle over a rectangle stroke, with the circle’s stroke creating transparency through both shapes.

On the picture I want the white stroke of the circle to be transparent through the rectangle stroke too, I tried using pathfinder but the just came up with the result at the bottom of the image.

[jimBO8 · Accepted solution]

Discovered this method works great - https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/how-do-i-create-a-transparent-stroke-above-other-shapes/t...