Hackers love random numbers, or more accurately, the pursuit of them. It turns out that computers are so good at following our exacting instructions that they are largely incapable of doing anything ...

To simulate chance occurrences, a computer can’t literally toss a coin or roll a die. Instead, it relies on special numerical recipes for generating strings of shuffled digits that pass for random ...

OTTAWA, ON, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the International Cryptographic Module conference (ICMC23), ID Quantique (IDQ) announced that its Quantis QRNG chips have just received NIST ESV ...

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.

Quantum cybersecurity firm QuintessenceLabs (QLabs) has announced developing a full-entropy quantum random number generator (QRNG), by leveraging a "flaw" in diodes. QLabs said the flaw, a quantum ...