From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can ...

"Strictly speaking, an algorithm does not produce a truly random number ... "These tests are simple to reproduce with a desktop computer. All you need is time," he said. "It took us almost a year of ...

Researchers have built the fastest random-number generator ever made, using a simple laser ... is surprisingly difficult to come by. Algorithms in conventional computers can produce sequences ...

For example, a simple random number generator could ... that it's possible to create a two-source extractor algorithm to generate a random number. But that proof doesn't tell us how to make ...

For example, a simple random number generator could be built by ... argument from probability shows that it’s possible to create a two-source extractor algorithm to generate a random number. But that ...

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 ...