Scientists built the fastest quantum random number generator, creating truly random numbers using light from atoms, boosting ...

What they have created is an algorithm which ensures that seemingly random numbers really are as random as they look. “We believe, and our paper proves, that in quantum experiments much more ...

"Strictly speaking, an algorithm does not produce a truly random number," Fischbach said ... was whether the points derived from pi's digits generate an identical curve, and also whether the ...

Current methods of generating random numbers can produce predictable results. Researchers said the new method could generate higher ... numbers according to an algorithm or from a pre-generated ...

Sources told Reuters that RSA Security had entered into $10 million of secret contracts with the NSA, a provision of which was to make the weakened algorithm ... of the random-number generator ...

According to this post on the official V8 Javascript blog, the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG ... For the last six years, the algorithm that’s been used has been pretty horrible.

only the difference of a few milliseconds between keystrokes is enough to seed a random number generation routine with a different starting number each time. Once seeded, an algorithm computes ...