gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org to interestingasfuck@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Cloudflare uses lava lamp as a source of randomness

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Cloudflare uses lava lamp as a source of randomness

gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org to interestingasfuck@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/

since the motion of fluids is notoriously hard to compute, this makes for a good source of randomness.

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Thirty years ago, lavarand.sgi.com did the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

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