Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps to Generate Encryption Keys

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Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps to Generate Encryption Keys

By CircleID Reporter
November 07, 2017, 9:37 pm PST Views: 6,321 Add Comment

The web performance and security company, Cloudflare has shared one of the methods it uses to ensure randomness when generating encryption keys. Rhett Jones reporting in Gizmodo: “Cloudflare provides security and domain name services for millions of the most prominent sites on the web. The company has built a solid reputation for its secure encryption and one of the key factors in its system is a wall of 100 lava lamps in the lobby of its San Francisco headquarters. ... The most simple explanation is that a lava lamp is a great way to generate randomness. Coding just isn’t great at generating random numbers because, at its heart, code requires a system to mimic chaos.”

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