Such a fine line between chemical immiscibility and cryptographic randomness

Such a fine line between drinking coffee and not drinking coffee.

Such a fine line between chemical immiscibility and cryptographic randomness.

Transcript

Such a fine line between chemical immiscibility—

—and mixing multiple sources of randomness together in a cryptographic entropy pool.

Source: Journal of Lava Lamp Applications

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• #ThisIsLavaTap

In the News

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  Prince of Lava is a 1987 American supernatural comedy stoner film about a group of industrial chemistry students who assist a Catholic priest in investigating an ancient lava lamp discovered in a monastery, which they come to find is a sentient, liquid embodiment of chemical polarity.

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  Such a fine line between a totally see-through catsuit and a partially see-through catsuit.

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  Such a fine line between recreational lizard ultrasounds and artificial wombs for new dinosaurs.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Journal of Lava Lamp Applications
• Prince of Lava
• Such a fine line between a totally see-through catsuit and a partially see-through catsuit
• Such a fine line between recreational lizard ultrasounds and artificial wombs for new dinosaurs

External links

• How do lava lamps help with Internet encryption? @ Cloudflare - Cloudflare translates photos of 100 lava lamps into random data for use in SSL encryption.

• This Is Spinal Tap @ Wikipedia
• This Is Spinal Tap - trailer @ YouTube
• Such a fine line between clever and stupid @ YouTube
• The thin dumb line @ YouTube
• Nigel Tufnel's musical masterpiece (in D minor which is the saddest of all keys) @ YouTube
• These go to eleven @ YouTube

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