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

A large team of scientists says they’ve achieved “certified randomness” using a quantum computer. In a classical computer, ...

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 ...

Modern applications rely on surprisingly complex mathematical algorithms to produce the randomness we take for granted.