{"id":18696,"date":"2017-08-22T14:04:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18696"},"modified":"2017-08-22T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:04:20","slug":"cloudflares-lava-lamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/cloudflares-lava-lamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare&rsquo;s Lava Lamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/90137157\/the-hardest-working-office-design-in-america-encrypts-your-data-with-lava-lamps\">Katharine Schwab<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/90137157\/the-hardest-working-office-design-in-america-encrypts-your-data-with-lava-lamps\">\n<p>When you walk into the San Francisco office of the cloud network and security firm Cloudflare, you&rsquo;re greeted by a receptionist&#x2013;and a giant wall of 100 lava lamps. It isn&rsquo;t just a throwback to the 1960s. The lava lamps act as a random number generator, helping to encrypt the requests that go through Cloudflare, which make up 10% of all internet requests.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare turns the &ldquo;Wall of Entropy&rdquo; into encryption using a camera that photographs the wall every millisecond of every day of the year. Any one of the company&rsquo;s systems can turn the display of pixels&#x2013;which changes based on a multitude of factors, like the movement of the lava, the inclusion of anyone who&rsquo;s walking by, and the shifting daylight&#x2013;into random numbers.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In London, they use dual pendulums. While a single pendulum swinging back and forth is very predictable, mathematicians have shown that if you take a pendulum and hang another pendulum from it, you&rsquo;ll create a system that no one has figured out how to model.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katharine Schwab: When you walk into the San Francisco office of the cloud network and security firm Cloudflare, you&rsquo;re greeted by a receptionist&#x2013;and a giant wall of 100 lava lamps. It isn&rsquo;t just a throwback to the 1960s. The lava lamps act as a random number generator, helping to encrypt the requests that go through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1485,813,96],"class_list":["post-18696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cloudflare","tag-random-numbers","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18697,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}