I need to generate 10 MB of random characters to write to a file, so I hacked together a quick script to do it. It is UNBEARABLY, FANTASTICALLY, CATACLYSMICALLY slow. I mean, it's been running for the ...

Whether it’s a game of D&D or encrypting top-secret information, a wide array of methods are available for generating the needed random numbers with high enough entropy for their use case. For a ...

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 ...