A few password managers actively work to eliminate the remotest possibility of such a focused attack. By incorporating your own mouse movements or random characters into the random algorithm, they ...

A paper published in Nature by University of Colorado, Boulder, postdoctoral student Gautam Kavuri and colleagues, describes ...

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can ...

From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

Just about every password manager comes with its own random password generator, some of which are better than others. In most cases, though, the program uses what's called a pseudo-random algorithm.

Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can ...

This is fine for everyday use and fine for most people's password generation needs. However, it's theoretically possible for a skilled hacker to determine the pseudo-random algorithm used.

A few password managers actively work to eliminate the remotest possibility of such a focused attack. By incorporating your own mouse movements or random characters into the random algorithm, they ...