Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can.

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Rajeev Dhir is a writer with 10+ years of experience as a journalist with a background in broadcast, print, and digital newsrooms. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the ...

Random number generators have been around for ages, but they often have subtle imperfections that cause patterns to emerge.

The “lazy influencer” is finished. Social media hierarchies stayed frozen for a decade. If a content creator hit a million followers in 2016, they owned that crowd. It was a closed system where huge ...

A consensus algorithm is the rule a distributed network follows to agree on which new block is added to a blockchain, so every honest node ends up with the same ledger without trusting any single ...

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In this post, we describe FrodoKEM, a key encapsulation protocol that offers a simple design and provides strong security guarantees even in a future with powerful quantum computers. For decades, ...

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 ...