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gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org to interestingasfuck@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month 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 · 1 month 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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    1 month ago

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

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

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    Relevant Tom Scott video

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    I believe that LetsEncrypt also has a lava wall

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    I decoded it from LL to binary so you don’t have to. Who can translate the encryption key to English? 0000101010100001111 0101110101010101010 1010102010201010101 010101.5010101010101

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