Original upload date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:14:18 GMT
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.
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anks 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-in-production-the-nitty-gritty-technical-details
Edited by Michelle Martin, @mrsmmartin
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