At its speed, the system would only take about 12 seconds to generate a body of random numbers equivalent to the size of information in the largest library in the world -- the US Library of Congress.

Image: Kyungduk Kim/University of Yale. Using a single, chip-scale laser, scientists have managed to generate streams of completely random numbers at about 100 times the speed of the fastest ...

That's why the new system could be a game-changer: It can generate 250 terabytes of random bits per second. In fact, it was so fast that the team behind it struggled to record its output using a ...

Instrumentation for the quantum random number generator in the NIST Boulder laboratories. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Strong passwords lower the overall risk of a security breach. Hence, we propose a True Random Number Generation (TRNG) using images from a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor ...

From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

Because computers don't understand words or phrases in the same way people can, they speak a language of their own, using only two symbols: 0 and 1. This computing parlance is known as binary code ...

In the Swiss experiment, the camera was used to create a 1.25 Gbit/s stream of random numbers. One worry about any random-number generator is that the numbers could be influenced in a predictable way ...