Lava Lamps and Web Security
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MetaJolt uses Cloudflare as one of the cornerstones of our defense grind (which was recently deployed). A few people asked how it worked, and, well... Lava Lamps. Tom Scott does a better job explaining how that works than I can here- enjoy!

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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.

Thanks to the team at Cloudflar...

MetaJolt uses Cloudflare as one of the cornerstones of our defense grind (which was recently deployed). A few people asked how it worked, and, well... Lava Lamps. Tom Scott does a better job explaining how that works than I can here- enjoy!

Original Description:

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.

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-...

Edited by Michelle Martin, @mrsmmartin

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Published on Jun 24, 2019
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