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Lavarand
Lavarand™ is Silicon Graphics' name for its method of generating pseudo-random numbers out of the patterns made by the floating material in lava lamps.
It is covered under US patent #5,732,138, titled "Method for seeding a pseudo-random number generator with a cryptographic hash of a digitization of a chaotic system."
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