But prime numbers are predictable, and scientists push our growing list of primes into new territory every day. In this paradigm, we’re protected by the limitations of computing power to do division ...

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 ...

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.

Admittedly, the SB42 Random Number Generator built by [Simon Boak] isn’t exactly something you’d be using for cryptography. The method used to generate the digits, a pair of 555 timers sending ...