Cloudflare’s new open-source project helps anyone obtain truly random numbers

2019-6-17 15:59

Randomness sits at the heart of everything we do online. Many encryption algorithms depend upon randomly generated numbers to work, and that’s just one example of many. But how random is random? It’s a fair question.

History has been shown that tools designed to generate random numbers — both physical and virtual — can be prone to failure. In this sense, failure means producing numbers that can be guessed or otherwise influenced in order to produce a certain outcome. Addressing this problem is Cloudflare, the Internet titan best known for its DDoS protection software. It’s teamed up with five other…

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