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LavaRand in Production: The Nitty-Gritty Technical Details
Blog post from Cloudflare
Post Details
Company
Date Published
Author
Joshua Liebow-Feeser
Word Count
2,849
Company Posts That Month
Language
English
Hacker News Points
2
Post removed?
No
Summary
Cloudflare uses lava lamps in its lobby to generate random numbers for cryptography. The unpredictable flow of "lava" in the lamps provides a source of true entropy. A camera captures images of the lava lamps, which are then used to create an entropy feed available to production machines. LavaRand is designed to ensure that Cloudflare's production machines have access to secure randomness even if their local entropy sources are compromised.
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