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Randomness is a word you hear in everyday life and in headlines about security breaches, but it hides subtle technical meaning. In cryptography, randomness is the backbone of secret keys, tokens, and nonces; when randomness fails, systems fail. What ...

This summer I undertook a project to investigate random number generation. I wanted to try and recreate Cloudflare's Lavarand using my own physical source of entropy. While looking around my room for inspiration I saw my plasma ball gathering dust o...
