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Scientists Discovered How to Generate Truly Random Numbers. It May Make Your Data Unhackable.

A new network paradigm can generate meaningfully random numbers—and fast. In network encryption, randomness has huge value because it’s not “solvable” by hackers. Classical computers can’t be ...
New Atlas

Perovskite LED unlocks next-level quantum random number generation

Random numbers are critical to encryption algorithms, but they're nigh-on impossible for computers to generate. Now, Swedish researchers say they've created a new, super-secure quantum random number ...
IFLScience

Can Computers Generate Truly Random Numbers? It's Complicated

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
TweakTown

AMD confirms critical security risk for many Zen 5 CPUs

TL;DR: AMD disclosed a critical vulnerability, AMD-SB-7055, affecting the RDSEED hardware random number generator on Zen 5 CPUs, causing 16-bit and 32-bit RDSEED instructions to return all zeroes ...
TechSpot

Critical vulnerability in AMD Zen 5 CPUs could make encryption keys predictable

What we know so far: AMD has revealed that its Zen 5 processors are affected by a critical security vulnerability that compromises the reliability of their hardware-based random number generator, ...