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The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure
Tom Scott
Tom Scott visits Cloudflare's San Francisco office to show the wall of lava lamps whose camera feed is used as a source of entropy for random number generation. It is a short explainer on how this helps secure internet encryption.
The go-to short explanation whenever lava lamps, entropy sources, or Cloudflare randomness come up.
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