A new network paradigm can generate meaningfully random numbers—and fast. In network encryption, randomness has huge value because it’s not “solvable” by hackers. Classical computers can ...

In the 1970s mathematicians found a simple way to create all numbers, from the infinitely small to infinitely large ...

Intel's first attempt to help an average computer produce better random numbers came in 1999, when the company introduced the Firmware Hub chipset component.

Using a quantum computer to speed up one step in a textbook approach to generating random numbers proves to be a savvy strategy, and one that could make good use of quantum computers that will be ...

Even then, the physicists and engineers only generated 512 bits of true randomness. Since then, researchers expanded and automated their experiment, thus offering random numbers whenever needed.

There’s no cheating this random number generator The protocol ensures jury duty selections and other draws are truly random and secure ...