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Cloudflare has exactly that: https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-produ...

> LavaRand is a system that uses lava lamps as a secondary source of randomness for our production servers. A wall of lava lamps in the lobby of our San Francisco office provides an unpredictable input to a camera aimed at the wall. A video feed from the camera is fed into a CSPRNG, and that CSPRNG provides a stream of random values that can be used as an extra source of randomness by our production servers.




And the League of Entropy, which includes Cloudflare, for data that needs to be random but doesn't need to be secret: https://blog.cloudflare.com/league-of-entropy/


Both seems like a wank project made by bored engineers tbh...




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