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Re:A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet by meej on Sunday December 31, 2017 @03:27PM (#16042711)
This is addressed in the last paragraph of the article.
Re:A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet by jstanley on Sunday December 31, 2017 @03:44PM (#16042837)
Not really. They say that having random (ha) people in the picture improves the entropy, but they don't address the possibility of people using it to gain information about Cloudflare's entropy pool.
Re:A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet by notatoad on Sunday December 31, 2017 @04:34PM (#16043121)
presumably if you set up camp with a camera in their lava lamp room, somebody is going to raise some eyebrows.
Re:A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet by gerdesj on Sunday December 31, 2017 @05:55PM (#16043486)
Not only that but your cameras are going to have to be precisely in the same place as theirs, with an identical view and be identical models with identical sensor variation, dust on lens etc etc etc ad nauseam.

As you say, that might raise a few eyebrows.

Re:A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet by frankydp on Sunday December 31, 2017 @08:01PM (#16043986)
Wouldn't you just cover their camera with paper or some other known pattern, if you were going to try that?
Re:A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet by IgorPartola on Sunday December 31, 2017 @09:48PM (#16044374)
Ooh! Can you shine a laser into the camera to blind it? Burn the sensor to a crisp and then let that seed the CSPRNG!
Re:A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet by mygo on Monday January 01, 2018 @12:14AM (#16044811)
Great way to test how quickly you can get thrown out by security guards