There will be an app for that: making random numbers on a mobile phone. (Courtesy: Marketa Michalkova) Do you feel nervous when you make a credit-card transaction using your mobile phone? Your worries ...

How can you generate random bits? Some people think it’s not easy, others will tell you that it’s pretty damn hard, and then there are those who wonder if it is possible at all. Of course, it is easy ...

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 random-numbers generator systems that are ...

"There is one area of the law which concerns all attorneys yet provokes little interest or curiosity among us," according to Marc Garfinkle, a former trial lawyer whose Morristown practice is now ...

Digital data processing in computers, mobile devices, ATM machines etc., do have a huge impact on our information-based society. Random numbers are essential for cryptographic protocols which are ...

Random number generation is the Achilles heel of cryptography. Intel's Ivy Bridge processor incorporates its own, robust random number generator. Random number generation is the Achilles heel of ...