#randomnumbers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #randomnumbers, aggregated by home.social.
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Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths
https://www.rferl.org/a/mystery-numbers-station-persian-signal-iran-war/33700659.html
#HackerNews #RandomNumbers #PersianCode #MysteriousSignal #RadioSleuths #IranWar
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LLMs Generate Predictable Passwords
LLMs are bad at generating passwords:
There are strong noticeable patterns among these 50 passwords that can be seen easily:All of the p... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/llms-generate-predictable-passwords.html
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🎲 Oh, how thrilling! An entire article dedicated to the #history of random numbers, because what could be more riveting than a saga about #digits doing... nothing? 🤷♂️ Let’s all pretend we didn’t just waste precious minutes learning about the chaotic lives of numbers that can't even decide what they want to be when they grow up. 🤦♀️
https://crates.io/crates/oorandom#a-brief-history-of-random-numbers #randomnumbers #chaos #intriguing #HackerNews #ngated -
Random Numbers from Hard Problems: LWE Toy RNG
https://blog.s20n.dev/posts/lwe-rng/
#HackerNews #RandomNumbers #LWE #RNG #HardProblems #ToyRNG #HackerNews
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🚀 Ah, the noble #quest #for "perfect" random floating-point numbers, yet somehow it reads like a 16-minute sleep-inducing lullaby about dividing by zero. 🤔 Who knew the real challenge was turning integers into fractions without losing brain cells in the process? 🙃
https://specbranch.com/posts/fp-rand/ #randomNumbers #perfection #floatingPoint #math #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Constantly Divisionless Random Numbers — https://dotat.at/@/2025-03-05-lemire-inline.html
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Constantly Divisionless Random Numbers — https://dotat.at/@/2025-03-05-lemire-inline.html
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Constantly Divisionless Random Numbers — https://dotat.at/@/2025-03-05-lemire-inline.html
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Constantly Divisionless Random Numbers — https://dotat.at/@/2025-03-05-lemire-inline.html
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The search for the random numbers that run our lives
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240704-the-search-for-the-random-numbers-that-run-our-lives
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Neat exploration of generating random floating point numbers. And a probably-portable implementation of a better way than most for doing so.
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Coin Flips Are Biased
Experimental result:
Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study we collected 350... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/coin-flips-are-biased.html -
Bounty to Recover NIST’s Elliptic Curve Seeds
This is a fun challenge:
The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late ’90s by hashing seeds provided by the NSA.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/bounty-to-recover-nists-elliptic-curve-seeds.html#Uncategorized #randomnumbers #cryptography #backdoors #contests #NIST
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Bounty to Recover NIST’s Elliptic Curve Seeds https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/bounty-to-recover-nists-elliptic-curve-seeds.html #Uncategorized #randomnumbers #cryptography #backdoors #contests #NIST
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@arstechnica
Lol. You use the current time to seed #RandomNumbers, not the other way around! -
Cryptographic Flaw in Libbitcoin Explorer Cryptocurrency Wallet
Cryptographic flaws still matter. Here’s a flaw in the random-number generator used to create private keys. The seed has only 32 bits of entropy.
Seems like this flaw is being exploited in the wild.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/cryptographic-flaw-in-libbitcoin-explorer-cryptocurrency-wallet.html -
Cryptographic Flaw in Libbitcoin Explorer Cryptocurrency Wallet https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/cryptographic-flaw-in-libbitcoin-explorer-cryptocurrency-wallet.html #cryptocurrency #Uncategorized #randomnumbers #keys
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Just in case you want to try to win the lotto, I wrote a new Python script for you this evening. Check it out: https://www.extrasidehustles.com/esh/2023/04/18/writing-python-script-to-random-generate-three-digit-number-sequences/
#Python #LinearCongruentialGenerator #LotteryNumbers #RandomNumbers #NumberGenerator #SecurityCodes #Programming #Coding #FunWithPython #DataScience #Mathematics #Probability #Algorithms #NumericalMethods #ComputerScience #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #AI #ML #DataAnalysis #DataVisualization #DigitalMarketing #SEO -
Just in case you want to try to win the lotto, I wrote a new Python script for you this evening. Check it out: https://www.extrasidehustles.com/esh/2023/04/18/writing-python-script-to-random-generate-three-digit-number-sequences/
#Python #LinearCongruentialGenerator #LotteryNumbers #RandomNumbers #NumberGenerator #SecurityCodes #Programming #Coding #FunWithPython #DataScience #Mathematics #Probability #Algorithms #NumericalMethods #ComputerScience #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #AI #ML #DataAnalysis #DataVisualization #DigitalMarketing #SEO -
Just in case you want to try to win the lotto, I wrote a new Python script for you this evening. Check it out: https://www.extrasidehustles.com/esh/2023/04/18/writing-python-script-to-random-generate-three-digit-number-sequences/
#Python #LinearCongruentialGenerator #LotteryNumbers #RandomNumbers #NumberGenerator #SecurityCodes #Programming #Coding #FunWithPython #DataScience #Mathematics #Probability #Algorithms #NumericalMethods #ComputerScience #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #AI #ML #DataAnalysis #DataVisualization #DigitalMarketing #SEO -
Just in case you want to try to win the lotto, I wrote a new Python script for you this evening. Check it out: https://www.extrasidehustles.com/esh/2023/04/18/writing-python-script-to-random-generate-three-digit-number-sequences/
#Python #LinearCongruentialGenerator #LotteryNumbers #RandomNumbers #NumberGenerator #SecurityCodes #Programming #Coding #FunWithPython #DataScience #Mathematics #Probability #Algorithms #NumericalMethods #ComputerScience #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #AI #ML #DataAnalysis #DataVisualization #DigitalMarketing #SEO -
On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/10/on-the-randomness-of-automatic-card-shufflers.html #Uncategorized #randomnumbers #loopholes #gambling
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On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers
Many years ago, Matt Blaze and I talked about getting our hands on a casino-grade automatic shuffler and looking for vulnerabilities. We never did it—I remember that we didn’t even try very hard—but <a href="https://www.bbc.com/f... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/10/on-the-randomness-of-automatic-card-shufflers.html
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Linux Improves Its Random Number Generator https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/03/linux-improves-its-random-number-generator.html #Uncategorized #randomnumbers #Linux
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Breaking RSA through Insufficiently Random Primes https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/03/breaking-rsa-through-insufficiently-random-primes.html #Uncategorized #cryptanalysis #randomnumbers #keys #PGP #RSA
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More Detail on the Juniper Hack and the NSA PRNG Backdoor https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/09/more-detail-on-the-juniper-hack-and-the-nsa-prng-backdoor.html #Uncategorized #randomnumbers #backdoors #firewall #hacking #Juniper #China #NSA
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Vulnerability in the Kaspersky Password Manager https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/07/vulnerability-in-the-kaspersky-password-manager.html #vulnerabilities #Uncategorized #randomnumbers #PasswordSafe #passwords
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Hackaday Podcast 048: Truly Trustworthy Hardware, Glowing Uranium Marbles, Bitstreaming the USB, Chaos of Congress - Hackaday editors Elliot WIlliams and Mike Szczys kick off the first podcast of the new year. Elliot ... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/01/03/hackaday-podcast-048-truly-trustworthy-hardware-glowing-uranium-marbles-bitstreaming-the-usb-chaos-of-congress/ #circuitsculpture #hackadaycolumns #securehardware #randomnumbers #camerasensor #bunniehuang #podcasts #podcast #uranium
