But prime numbers are predictable, and scientists push our growing list of primes into new territory every day. In this ...

Given the same seed, a pseudo-random number generator will always produce the exact same sequence of numbers. For applications where predictability could be an issue, like in cryptography ...

Used in applications such as computer games and cryptographic key generation, random numbers are easily created in a computer due to many random events that take place. For example, only the ...

The reaction of the lamps is unpredictable, and this allows them to generate really random numbers. [Joshua], a Cloudflare employee, talks about the technical details of the system in a recent ...

While working towards his Computing and Information Systems degree at the University of London, [Jason Fenech] submitted an interesting proposal for generating random numbers using nothing more ...

Generating random lists of numbers in Excel is handy for randomizing lists, statistical sampling, and many other uses. However, Excel's random number functions are volatile, meaning they change ...

For example, traditional computers may create encryption based on the result of multiplying two large prime numbers together, generating a seemingly random number. As this string of numbers only ...

A quantum machine has used entangled qubits to generate a number certified as truly random for the first time, demonstrating ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have used a 56-qubit quantum computer to create and confirm truly random numbers — ...

If these readouts are truly the product of random circuit sampling measurements performed on a quantum computer, they will be ...

A team that included researchers at a US bank says it has created a protocol that can generate certified truly random numbers, opening the possibility that current generation quantum computers can ...