It may come as a surprise that despite the power our computers have, they can't achieve true randomness. In fact, they rely ...

COMP_SCI 396, 496: Randomized Algorithms VIEW ALL COURSE TIMES AND SESSIONS Prerequisites 336 or Permission of the instructor, ... several algorithms have been designed which crucially use randomness ...

Snowden documents say NSA introduced weaknesses to the number-generating guidance. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finally removed a cryptographic algorithm from its draft ...

Many practical algorithms make random choices to achieve their objectives more efficiently; in a series of groundbreaking studies in the 1990s, Wigderson and his collaborators showed that ...