[Zach] sent in a project he’s been working on that brings hardware random number generators to common hardware you might have lying around. It’s called Whirlyfly and it turns an FPGA dev board into a ...

[Ian] had a need for a lot of random numbers. There are dozens of commercial offerings when it comes to RNGs, but there are also hundreds of different ways for an electronics hobbyist to shoot random ...

A wide variety of applications, including data encryption and circuit testing, require random numbers. As the cost of the hardware become cheaper, it is feasible and frequently necessary to implement ...

A new research paper titled “FPGA Random Number Generator” was published by a researcher at Johns Hopkins University. According to the paper’s abstract: “This paper offers a proof-of-concept for ...

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Special circuitry to generate random numbers has been built into a computer processor called C3, released last week by Taiwan's VIA Technologies. The world's largest semiconductor company, Intel, has ...

Random number generation is the Achilles heel of cryptography. Intel's Ivy Bridge processor incorporates its own, robust random number generator. Random number generation is the Achilles heel of ...