Groundbreaking random number algorithm may be boon for online security By Luke Dormehl Published June 27, 2016 Save Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard ...

There’s no cheating this random number generator. ... Everything is processed through an algorithm that filters out any patterns. The result is 512 binary digits of certified pure randomness.

In the first, a computer picks numbers according to an algorithm or from a pre-generated list. This method, while fast and not requiring much computer power, is not truly random, because the ...

To accomplish this goal, they selected a new spin-flipping algorithm developed by Ulli Wolff of the University of Kiel in Germany and a “subtract-with-borrow” random-number generator invented ...

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 ...

Many years since a backdoor was discovered, probably planted by the NSA, public pressure finally forces NIST to formally remove Dual_EC_DRBG from their recommendations.

The NSA unduly influenced the US government's standards-creation process to introduce a cryptographic flaw into an algorithm, ... NSA 'altered random-number generator' Published. 11 September 2013 ...