Randomness 101: LavaRand in Production

There's a wall of lava lamps in the lobby of our San Francisco office. We use it for cryptography. Here's how it works.

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Also no, #LavaRand is just #pseudorandom, because every #Lavalamp has a determineable cycle of blobs it'll form...

It's just that that it'll take exact info re: the filling, geometry and used bulb to be able to reconstruct and recreate the loop.

But it's a form of #pseudorandomness that is considered "sufficient"...

Tho if one uses #CloudFlare they already fucked up #ITsec so hard, they might just not use #SSL at all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cUUfMeOijg video via @tomscott

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

At the headquarters of Cloudflare, in San Francisco, there's a wall of lava lamps: the Entropy Wall. They're used to generate random numbers and keep a good ...

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TIL Cloudflare používá zeď z lávových lamp jako hardwarový generátor náhodných čísel.
#lavarand #security
How these lava lamps are securing the internet

How these lava lamps are securing the internet

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