According to this post on the official V8 Javascript blog, the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) that V8 Javascript uses in Math.random() is horribly flawed and getting replaced with something ...

Over the years, multiple studies have found that Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine was ... Google needed to switch to a new pseudo-random number generator called xorshift128+ which ...

"Encryption methodology actually makes use of random numbers in order to secure that information," said Travis Humble.

Of course, it is easy to create a very long pseudorandom sequence in software, but even the best PRNG (Pseudorandom Number Generator) needs a good random seed, as we don’t want to get the same ...

A software routine that produces a random number. Used in applications such as computer games and cryptographic key generation, random numbers are easily created in a computer due to many random ...