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TIL Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare uses a wall of lava lamps and software called Lavarand to generate its cryptographic keys
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This is because in computer science there is no known way to programmatically generate a truly random number. This was one attempt to seed it using analog means.
Wasn’t this in a movie?
Seeing something on the front page and then pulling up a wiki page about it to post it in TIL is some beautifully recursive redditing.