The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure
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0.000 HBDThe Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure
<center> <hr> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cUUfMeOijg <hr> <center> 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. </center> <hr> <center> 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/ </center> <hr> <center> Edited by Michelle Martin, @mrsmmartin </center> <hr> <center> 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 </center> <hr> </center>