Whether it’s a game of D&D or encrypting top-secret information, a wide array of methods are available for generating the needed random numbers with high enough entropy for their use case. For a ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder have developed the world’s truest random number generator based on quantum mechanics.

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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 be ...