How good are you at being random? Your unpredictability can aid a worldwide experiment Wednesday to test the laws of quantum mechanics. The "Big Bell Test," coordinated by The Institute of Photonic ...

When it comes to unpredictable strings of numbers, some are more random than others. Until now there has been no way to confirm 'true' randomness, leaving encryption techniques that rely on random ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on the intersection of games and technology. Sep 06, 2012, 12:54pm EDT Sep 06, 2012, 02:31pm EDT This article is more than ...

Physicists have completed a study comparing the "randomness" in pi to that produced by random number generators. They have found that while sequences of digits from pi are indeed an acceptable ...

How to add more entropy to improve cryptographic randomness on Linux Your email has been sent If you have Linux servers that depend upon encryption, you owe it to yourself to beef up the system ...