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The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure
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The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure
  • Published_at:2017-11-06
  • Category:Education
  • Channel:Tom Scott
  • tags: tom scott tomscott cloudflare lava lamps entropy random number generator rng pseudorandom number generator encryption ssl amazing places
  • description: 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 bit of the internet secure: here's how. Thanks to the team at Cloudflare - this is not a sponsored video, they just had interesting lava lamps! There's a technical rundown of the system on their blog here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty-gritty-technical-details Edited by Michelle Martin, @mrsmmartin I'm at http://tomscott.com on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at http://facebook.com/tomscott and on Snapchat and Instagram as tomscottgo
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