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 ...

NIST Removes Cryptography Algorithm from Random Number Generator Recommendations September 2013, news reports prompted public concern about the trustworthiness of Dual_EC_DRBG. As a result, NIST ...

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 … ...

NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has formally removed Dual_EC_DRBG from its draft guidance on random number generators. This ...

There are currently two main methods for generating random numbers. In the first, a computer picks numbers according to an algorithm or from a pre-generated list. This method, while fast and not ...

NIST later started an investigation into the algorithm, seeking public input on its use. In 2014, the standards agency removed Dual_EC_DRBG from its draft recommendations and made the decision ...

It had written a flaw into a random-number generator that would allow the agency to predict the outcome of the algorithm, the New York Times reported.