Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and ...

For that you’ll need a true random number generator (RNG), and this open-source hardware RNG uses one of the better methods we’ve seen. The device, called RAVA, is based on a property found in ...

This is simply a myth, the systems do not work and this is not possible. A generator has just one function. This is the generation of random numbers. The numbers are generated on a consistent basis.

Even though rand() may be a good enough random number generator for making a video game, the patterns of random bits it spits out may not be sufficient for applications requiring truly random data.

This bug was caused by a one-line code change to OpenSSL's random number generator. Software-based RNGs are difficult to build and test, often hard to use, and still don't work everywhere.

Slot machine random number generators determine game outcomes but aren’t always as random as they seem. Learn how RNGs work and how to identify their patterns.