http://tech.saigonist.com/taxonomy/term/57/all en http://tech.saigonist.com/b/code/what-pseudo-random-number-generator-prng-and-why-do-they-matter <span class="submitted-by">January 11, 2016</span><div class="field_tags"><span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/crypto">crypto</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/random">random</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/prng">prng</a></span> <span class="label label-info"><a href="/tags/security">security</a></span> </div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Recently, a problem was discovered in the pseudo-random number generator which Google Chrome and Node.js's V8 JavaScript engine uses and depends on. The problem was that a pattern was discovered in the series of numbers which the RNG algorithm produced, meaning you could guess the "random" outcome at a probability higher than chance, giving you an advantage - whether the application is breaking encryption or passwords or beating games of chance.</p> <p>Edward Snowden, who had worked for the CIA, warned of problems or backdoors in hardware random number generators which many computers...</p></div></div></div> Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:50:27 +0000 tomo 28 at http://tech.saigonist.com