What they have created is an algorithm which ensures that seemingly random numbers really are as random as they look. “We believe, and our paper proves, that in quantum experiments much more ...

Scientists built the fastest quantum random number generator, creating truly random numbers using light from atoms, boosting ...

Current methods of generating random numbers can produce predictable results. Researchers said the new method could generate higher ... numbers according to an algorithm or from a pre-generated ...

"Strictly speaking, an algorithm does not produce a truly random number," Fischbach said ... was whether the points derived from pi's digits generate an identical curve, and also whether the ...

Sources told Reuters that RSA Security had entered into $10 million of secret contracts with the NSA, a provision of which was to make the weakened algorithm ... of the random-number generator ...

Many processes for producing these keys — such as the random number generator that's probably on your computer right now — use an algorithm that spits out a seemingly arbitrary string of numbers.

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 ...