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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cloudflare is on a mission to build a better Internet. And part of how it achieves this is through a wall of lava lamps. Yes, truly. This wall helps generate random numbers for cryptographic keys.

Lava lamps may be fun reminders of the 1970s, but these days, some are being used to help keep data secure. Nick Sullivan with a tech firm called Cloudflare shows a wall of lava lamps that are part ...

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Cloudflare provides security and domain name services for millions of the most prominent sites on the web. The company has built a solid reputation for its secure encryption and one of the key factors ...

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 ...

I'd heard of Cloudflare's Wall of Entropy - literally, a wall of lava lamps that float up and bubble down as lava heats and cools, making it lighter or heavier. On a recent visit to San Francisco for ...