There are a great variety of ways to build a random number generator, and similarly many ways to generate numbers that appear random, but in a pure mathematical sense generally aren’t. [Danie… ...

Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can ...

When you use a machine to generate a “random” number, then, what you’re actually getting is almost certainly a “pseudorandom” number – something that looks random, but technically isn’t.

The numbers could be predicted by anyone familiar with the random number generators, security procedures and the algorithm, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Don Smith wrote in ...

Most of these modules implement more than one random number generator. In some cases, the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm may be listed as included in a product, but another approved algorithm may be used ...

In the first, a computer picks numbers according to an algorithm or from a pre-generated list. ... The new solution takes two "weak" random sources to generate a single, high-quality random number.

Random number generators play an important role in the operation of online casinos. They determine the fairness and ...

Computer algorithms are often used to generate seemingly random numbers, but a sophisticated enough attacker could figure out what predetermined steps a computer is using and then predict its outputs.

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 … ...

The camera and LED are adjusted so that each pixel detects about 400 photons in a short exposure time. The photon numbers of all the camera pixels are combined in an “extractor” algorithm that outputs ...