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’t be ...

I need to generate a file of unordered random numbers with C to test sort functions. Currently, with the `srand()' and `rand()' functions, I always get a set of numbers that is in increasing order. So ...

From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...

“This is a marvelous step” toward more efficient random number generation, says Rajarshi Roy, a physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park who was not involved in the work. Random number ...

Do you feel nervous when you make a credit-card transaction using your mobile phone? Your worries could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a low-cost device that could bring powerful cryptography ...