Strong passwords are needed to protect your electronic accounts from brute force attacks and other cyberattacks attempted by hackers. In this article, I am going to show you how you can generate a ...

Most password managers include a tool for generating random, strong passwords, but not all are created equal. Understanding the differences can help you make an informed choice. When the IBM PC was ...

Last week came word that the randomly generated crytographic keys used by certain Linux flavors were not so random. Now there’s a tool in circulation that can make it easier for attackers to crack the ...

The Energy Department has technology that can generate random number sequences, and now it wants to commercialize it. It’s incredibly difficult to create a truly random sequence of numbers—often ...

Mozilla is adding a random password generator to Firefox. Google added one to Chrome and Chromium-based browsers in the fall of 2018, with the release of Chrome/Chromium v69. The Firefox random ...

SAN FRANCISCO, RSA Conference -- In light of yet another SSL vulnerability this week, any improvements to the underpinnings of encryption would be welcome. One weakness of encryption algorithms -- one ...

Random number sequences are essential to a host of encryption schemes. But true randomness in the strict sense is not possible in the classical world; it only occurs in quantum-mechanical processes.