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Lava lamps guard 20% of the internet — including your bank account

Cloudflare uses a wall of 100 lava lamps to generate truly random encryption keys that protect your banking data, online ...
Money Talks News on MSN

This swinging '60s hippie relic protects 20% of the internet — and your money

Weird, wonderful and unbreakable. Although the one languishing in your attic won't help you.
AOL

Lava Lamps Can Actually Create Secure File Encryptions - Here's How

Cloudflare wall of entropy and lava lamp encryption wall in headquarters. - Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images As far as data encryption goes, you wouldn't expect a bunch of lights to help secure ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Encryption is groovy: SF tech company CloudFlare uses lava lamps in an unusual way

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Facebook's latest hack has many asking if there are better ways to protect information. It may be unconventional, but Cloudflare, a San Francisco based tech company, is using an ...
HotHardware

Cloudflare Uses Groovy Lava Lamps To Generate Encryption Keys For Beefy Internet Security

Most people have probably never been to Cloudflare's San Francisco office, but those who have been there would have noticed a large wall of lava lamps in the lobby. It is hard to miss—after all, it is ...
ZDNet

How Cloudflare uses lava lamps to encrypt the Internet

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IFLScience

Around 10 Percent Of The Internet Is Encrypted Via Lava Lamps

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Digital Trends

Sounds crazy, but this wall of lava lamps keeps you protected from hackers

Computers are supposed to be predictable. In 99.9 percent of cases, that’s exactly what we want from them. The exception to that rule? When we’re trying to get a computer to generate a truly random ...
nerdist

Giant Wall of Lava Lamps Helps to Protect 10% of Internet Traffic (Seriously)

The lava lamp usually gets a bum rap as some kind of lowbrow psychedelic entertainment system for people who are too strung out to enjoy any stimulation of real substance. But the lazy loafing sources ...
BGR

Lava Lamps Can Actually Create Secure File Encryptions - Here's How

As far as data encryption goes, you wouldn't expect a bunch of lights to help secure anything — certainly not some '70s-style lava lamps. But as it turns out, the exact opposite is true. Cloudflare, ...
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Lava Lamps Can Actually Create Secure File Encryptions - Here's How

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As far as data encryption goes, you wouldn't expect a bunch of lights to help secure anything — certainly not some '70s-style lava ...