[Ian] had a need for a lot of random numbers. There are dozens of commercial offerings when it comes to RNGs, but there are also hundreds of different ways for an electronics hobbyist to shoot random ...

[Zach] sent in a project he’s been working on that brings hardware random number generators to common hardware you might have lying around. It’s called Whirlyfly and it turns an FPGA dev board into a ...

This post was updated on December 16 to make clear that for most of FreeBSD’s history, it wasn’t possible to use RDRAND and Padlock as the sole source of random numbers fed to the /dev/random engine.

A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a novel design methodology for Gaussian random number (GRN) generators ...

Special circuitry to generate random numbers has been built into a computer processor called C3, released last week by Taiwan's VIA Technologies. The world's largest semiconductor company, Intel, has ...

SAN FRANCISCO, RSA Conference -- In light of yet another SSL vulnerability this week, any improvements to the underpinnings of encryption would be welcome. One weakness of encryption algorithms -- one ...