Research presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week revealed that the Linux software used by the most widely used random-number generators does not spit out ...

Edge compute and network firm Cloudflare has deployed a series of wave machines at its office in Portugal as a source of random number generation for its network encryption. In a blog post this week, ...

Peter Bierhorst’s machine is no pinnacle of design. Nestled in the Rocky Mountains inside a facility for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the photon-generating behemoth spans an ...

The Energy Department has technology that can generate random number sequences, and now it wants to commercialize it. It’s incredibly difficult to create a truly random sequence of numbers—often ...

Random number sequences are essential to a host of encryption schemes. But true randomness in the strict sense is not possible in the classical world; it only occurs in quantum-mechanical processes.

SAN FRANCISCO, RSA Conference -- In light of yet another SSL vulnerability this week, any improvements to the underpinnings of encryption would be welcome. One weakness of encryption algorithms -- one ...

While world events are often difficult to predict, true randomness is surprisingly hard to find. In recent years, physicists have turned to quantum mechanics for a solution, using the inherently ...

How can one create a random stream of bits suitable for use in encryption and embed this solution in an FPGA? Random numbers in cryptography are key (pun intended). They can be a weak point in a ...