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How a Wall of Lava Lamps is Helping Secure the Internet
What do you get when you cross cryptography with a wall of lava lamps? Believe it or not, a much more secure Internet. Cloudflare’s CTO John Graham-Cumming will explain why all our modern communications require sources of randomness to remain secure, and how his company has used a wall of 100 lava lamps to serve as a serious source of entropy. John will explain how to pick strong passwords using dice, how you can predict random numbers, and whether quantum computing will render all of our crypto technology useless.
Book: The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany, and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004. John is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications.
For Further Insight:
Website: jgc.org
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc
Help me to help you! Visit: https://patreon.com/FirewallsDontStopDragons
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What do you get when you cross cryptography with a wall of lava lamps? Believe it or not, a much more secure Internet. Cloudflare’s CTO John Graham-Cumming will explain why all our modern communications require sources of randomness to remain secure, and how his company has used a wall of 100 lava lamps to serve as a serious source of entropy. John will explain how to pick strong passwords using dice, how you can predict random numbers, and whether quantum computing will render all of our crypto technology useless.
Book: The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany, and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004. John is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications.
For Further Insight:
Website: jgc.org
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc
Help me to help you! Visit: https://patreon.com/FirewallsDontStopDragons
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