Improper seeding or failing to seed a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) can lead to vulnerabilities, especially in security protocols, as an attacker can predict the sequence of random numbers that ...

Hackers love random numbers, or more accurately, the pursuit of them. It turns out that computers are so good at following our exacting instructions that they are largely incapable of doing anything ...

In #310 optional specification of random seeds during circuit / diagram generation was introduced. While initially, this change / the seeding was applied to the global random.Random instance, the PR ...

Author Nick Sullivan worked for six years at Apple on many of its most important cryptography efforts before recently joining CloudFlare, where he is a systems engineer. He has a degree in mathematics ...

Abstract: Influence maximization in social networks is a fundamental problem in network science with applications in viral marketing, information diffusion, and opinion formation. However, privacy ...

Over the years, multiple studies have found that Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine was returning not-so-random numbers when you called the Math.random() function. Today that’s been fixed, with the ...

NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has formally removed Dual_EC_DRBG from its draft guidance on random number generators. This is ...