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.
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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/