Do you trust the passwords created by third-party software to be truly random and safe? Here's how to build your own random generator for uncrackable passwords. When the IBM PC was new, I served as ...

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 never be sure ...

Security company RSA was paid $10 million to use the flawed Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm as the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library, according to sources speaking to ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finally removed a cryptographic algorithm from its draft guidance on random ...

For the first time, a technique to generate true random numbers is ready to be deployed in real-life situations. It ...

You know the drill. Don’t use simple passwords like your birthday or your pet iguana’s name. Don’t use the same password everywhere. Instead, create a long ...