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.

OTTAWA, ON, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the International Cryptographic Module conference (ICMC23), ID Quantique (IDQ) announced that its Quantis QRNG chips have just received NIST ESV ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – If you wanted a random number, historically you could do worse than to pick a sequence from the string of digits in pi. But Purdue University scientists now say other sources ...

Laine Parland and Roberts Parland on their wedding day. Laine Parland stood at the altar beside her now-husband Robert Parland on April 6, ready to exchange rings, when a unique twist unfolded. The ...

Random Number Generators (RNG) are currently the tech used to determine the fate of gamblers. If you think about the amount of money that can be won in various progressive jackpots, you will realize ...

It's not the IoT vendors' fault. Lack of a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator subsystem for the internet of things devices will be vulnerable. The confidentiality and integrity ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

THE Internet, which began life as a way for academics to gossip and share data, was never designed with security in mind. As it changed into a commercial platform, programmers began bolting security ...