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 ...

Intel’s solution is a digital system that allows a microprocessor to make random values without relying on analog circuitry to do it. To understand how that is, we’ll have to delve in a bit ...

There is, it turns out, a way to create random numbers that are invulnerable to hackers — a task that’s actually harder than it sounds. Defining Random What exactly is a random number, anyway? And how ...

Intel's first attempt to help an average computer produce better random numbers came in 1999, when the company introduced the Firmware Hub chipset component.