davemark,
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"Cloudflare translates photos of 100 lava lamps into random data for use in SSL encryption."

Wait, what? This true?

Apparently so. @cloudflare uses a clever camera rig pointed at a wall of lava lamps to generate random numbers.

WOW.

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/

HootenHaller,
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karmalakas,
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@davemark @cloudflare dont't know for sure if it's true, but long time ago I've read somewhere, that random.org used ocean waves to generate random data. Now I see they say:
> RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise <...>

davemark,
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@karmalakas Fascinating!

pixel,
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davemark,
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@pixel @karmalakas Had no idea. But I love it.

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