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Lavarand

Lavarand is a hardware random number generator designed and trademarked by Silicon Graphics (SGI) in 1996. The system operates by digitizing the chaotic patterns of warm wax blobs oozing inside an array of lava lamps. This data is then processed with a cryptographic hash function to produce a high-quality seed for a cryptographically-secure pseudorandom…

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Lavarand

Nodes27
Edges26
Triples24
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.074074
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Lavarand → An, David, FNV, Fowler-Noll-Vo, Ian Goldberg, ID, In, Internet, Landon Curt Noll, Mende, Netscape, Netscape Navigator, Noll, PhD, Robert, Sanjeev Sisodiya, Secure Sockets Layer, SGI's, SSL, The
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Lavarand → hardware random number generator designed and trademarked by Silicon Graphics

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Lavarandis ahardware random number generator designed and trademarked by Silicon Graphics0.90text
RDRANDinstance ofbecause modern CPUs include their own high-speed hardware random number generators0.80text
Lavarandrelated to historySGI's0.60section
Lavarandrelated to historyInternet0.60section
Lavarandrelated to historyThe0.60section
Lavarandrelated to historySecure Sockets Layer0.60section
Lavarandrelated to historySSL0.60section
Lavarandrelated to historyIn0.60section
Lavarandrelated to historyPhD0.60section
Lavarandrelated to historyIan Goldberg0.60section
Lavarandrelated to historyDavid0.60section
Lavarandrelated to historyWagner0.60section

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