A truly random number is something that is surprisingly difficult to generate. A typical approach is to generate the required element of chance from a natural and unpredictable source, such as radi… ...

Quantum systems are inherently random, so they offer a way to generate random numbers. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, our guest is Ramy Shelbaya who is who is chief executive ...

For example, it would be better to use a random-number generator that produces a sequence of zeros, ones, and twos and then ignores the zeros to give a sequence of just ones and twos.

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.… ...

In the Swiss experiment, the camera was used to create a 1.25 Gbit/s stream of random numbers. One worry about any random-number generator is that the numbers could be influenced in a predictable way ...

These numbers need to be truly random, such that they cannot even be predicted by people with detailed knowledge of the method used to generate them. As a rule, they are generated using physical ...

The generation of random bit sequences at a data rate of up to 300 Gbit s−1 — a rate many orders of magnitude faster than previously achieved — is realized by exploiting the output ...