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How Cloudflare and Wall Street Are Helping Encrypt the Internet Today
9/14/2019 · Nick Sullivan
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This post details the use of lava lamps as an entropy source for Cloudflare's LavaRand system, which bolsters Internet encryption. It explains how video footage of lava lamps is captured and fed into the LavaRand algorithm to amplify randomness. The post also mentions the League of Entropy, a consortium of organizations generating verifiable randomness, and Cloudflare's role as a founding member.