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If you’re creating anything procedural, you’re almost guaranteed to come in need of random numbers at one point. And if you want to be able to produce the same result more than once, you’ll need the random numbers to be repeatable. In this article we...

Wikipedia word of the day is spade : To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting. (videogaming) To collect and statistically analyze data, for the purpose of determining the underlying random number generator structure or numeric...

attribution: Flickr/mark van de wouw license: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic When building secure systems, having a source of random numbers is essential. Without them, most cryptographic systems break down and the privacy and authenticity...

Introduction There is a lot of misinformation out there about /dev/random and /dev/urandom with regards to the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, not even the random(4) manpage seems to get it right. So, rather than argue with everyone on the Internet, I...

Paul Irish recently gave a talk at Bocoup with a dire warning: “The Mobile Web is in Trouble.” The general theme of the talk, somewhat apparent from the title, revolved around developers moving to native apps for performance, capabilities...