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Randomness 101: LavaRand in Production

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Date Published
Author
Joshua Liebow-Feeser
Word Count
1,963
Company Posts That Month
19
Language
English
Hacker News Points
16
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No
Summary

Cloudflare uses lava lamps in the lobby of their San Francisco office to generate random numbers for cryptography. The unpredictable flow of "lava" in the lamps is captured by a camera, and the video feed is fed into a Cryptographically Secure Pseudorandom Number Generator (CSPRNG). This system, known as LavaRand, serves as an additional source of randomness for their production servers. The idea was inspired by a similar system proposed by Silicon Graphics in 1996.

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