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 … ...

Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and ...

It still works for simpler contexts, but when it comes to security and cryptographic uses, we use a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator, which use significantly more complex ...

Over the years, multiple studies have found that Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine was returning not-so-random numbers when you called the Math.random() function. Today that’s been fixed ...

To speed things up, a team of researchers has developed a compact laser that can produce these random numbers 100 times quicker than the fastest current systems. The results are published February 26 ...