"Encryption methodology actually makes use of random numbers in order to secure that information," said Travis Humble.

A large team of scientists says they’ve achieved “certified randomness” using a quantum computer. In a classical computer, ...

only the difference of a few milliseconds between keystrokes is enough to seed a random number generation routine with a different starting number each time. Once seeded, an algorithm computes ...

Modern applications rely on surprisingly complex mathematical algorithms to produce the randomness we take for granted.

According to this post on the official V8 Javascript blog, the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG ... For the last six years, the algorithm that’s been used has been pretty horrible.