The Randomness Problem: How Lava Lamps Protect the Internet

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Go to Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription! Randomness is important for all kinds of things, from science to security, but to generate true randomness, engineers have turned to some pretty odd tricks! Hosted by: Stefan Chin Head to scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe! ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-lava-lamps-protect-from-hackers/ sploid.gizmodo.com/one-of-the-secrets-guarding-the-secure-internet-is-a-wa-1820188866 www.fastcompany.com/90137157/the-hardest-working-office-design-in-america-encrypts-your-data-with-lava-lamps www.nytimes.com/2001/06/12/science/connoisseurs-of-chaos-offer-a-valuable-product-randomness.html blog.cloudflare.com/why-randomness-matters/ www.design-reuse.com/articles/27050/true-randomness-in-cryptography.html www.random.org/randomness/ ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-856j-randomized-algorithms-fall-2002/lecture-notes/ link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-26300-7_3 www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/22/Ford/Volchan46-63.pdf nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-22r1a.pdf www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/testu01/guideshorttestu01.pdf www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418/index2.html www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P113.pdf docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/secauthn/tls-handshake-protocol tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2246#page-47 ops.fhwa.dot.gov/trafficanalysistools/tat_vol3/vol3_guidelines.pdf ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-36-communication-systems-engineering-spring-2009/lecture-notes/MIT16_36s09_lec21_22.pdf telescoper.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/points-and-poisson-davril/ auto.howstuffworks.com/remote-entry2.htm web.archive.org/web/20070315010555/https://cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.php Images: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middle-square_method.svg www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdW6nTNWbkc commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-crypto-accelerator-1000.jpg

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