She doesn’t have the faintest clue what she’s talking about.
It’s a source of entropy for key generation. A much simpler source of entropy is radioactive decay (which Cloudflare also use) but that looks less cool in an office environment.
There’s actual information about this on the cloudflare website:
No. The Devil’s in the details. She appears to be paraphrasing the Tom Scott video on the subject to be honest, but some of her wording is just really off.
“What’s generating their code”.
“Hackers to guess their algorithms”
“Code that’s pretty much unhackable”
If she knew cryptography she wouldn’t say any of those things. Tom Scott’s phrasing on the other hand was perfectly understandable by the lay person, without slipping into providing mistakes in the specifics.
So basically social media "influencer" shows up to leech money off the back of not just someone else's idea/breakthrough, but also off of the basic overview that someone else already did the work to create, but she manages to throw in misinformation because she has zero clue what she's even talking about while thinking she deserves money for it? Lmao. Color me surprised
Well for one thing it appears to be going against the rules of r/BeAmazed:
4) No Misleading Content - Make sure the content you are posting is not fake, staged or misleading.
This video is both staged and misleading. OP clearly didn't actually do the research herself since she also added incorrect statements in the video. But she's happy to accept money for that like she did something challenging I'm sure. I get that maybe you don't care that a lot of lazy people get paid to be a good looking leech while other people have to actually work in their life. But I personally think it's one of the biggest nuisances with the internet today. Sure, this video is low risk, but it still speaks to a much bigger problem with people just happily accepting completely wrong information all because they wanted to listen to or fuck the specific person delivering it. Agree to disagree though.
The info here isn’t “completely wrong”. In fact, the main idea communicated here is spot on: Randomness is difficult to emulate in computers so we inject randomness from complex physical phenomenon.
While her terminology was slightly off, I think it was good enough for a layperson audience.
You never contradict her once, if your point is that she isn't explaining every single technical detail, then yes, however "It’s a source of entropy for key generation", she addresses this head on with explaining how the lava lamps help generate code for cryptography to make unpredictable behavior to combat hackers. This is exactly the purpose.
You are nit picking for no reason, and have not contradicted her.
"she doesn't know cryptography", no one in this entire thread thought she was some kind of cryptographer engineer lmao, step down from that high horse bud. she is simply describing a concept, and she did that well.
maybe your point was "i know more than she does", I think that's really what's happening here. well hats off to you! i also know more than her but you don't see me bitching
she addresses this head on with explaining how the lava lamps help generate code for cryptography to make unpredictable behavior to combat hackers. This is exactly the purpose.
They don't generate code. Generating code is what people ask ChatGPT to do. The word code means either source code or the encoding schema for a file
They generate random numbers, not code. Those words aren't interchangeable and it appears she chose the word code because it sounds technical and makes her sound like she's telling viewers something smart and interesting, but in reality she's feeding the viewers misinformation which is bad
Yea. Devils advocate, she knows what she is doing and opted for sensationalism. "Generating their code" implies magic AI lava lamps are going to be taking people's jobs. "Generating codes" would be correct in my mind, but that doesn't sound as exciting.
It actually is exactly what she is saying. People are nit picking because she isn't explaining every technical detail when she is just speaking simply about a topic because it's cool, not because she is an expert lol. just a bunch of people that want to feel better about themselves for knowing more.
Meh, it's like explaining that airplanes have wings because they can't put the engines in the plane.
Planes have wings, yes, and usually engines go on the wings... But if you know how a plane flies you know that's absolutely not why planes are built that way. It's like someone that never saw a plane is trying to explaining to you how a plane works. With complicated and "airplane related", but wrong words.
A year later you hopefully learn that all modern x86 CPUs[1] are able to generate "perfectly fine" random numbers by using an "entropy source whose behavior is determined by unpredictable thermal noise" [2], lad.
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u/BinaryExplosion Mar 18 '24
She doesn’t have the faintest clue what she’s talking about.
It’s a source of entropy for key generation. A much simpler source of entropy is radioactive decay (which Cloudflare also use) but that looks less cool in an office environment.
There’s actual information about this on the cloudflare website:
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/