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The search for the random numbers that run our lives
Our world runs on randomly generated numbers and without them a surprising proportion of modern life would break down. So, why are they so hard to find?
The motion of those lava lamps, the blobby, oily, waxy thing inside, is not predictable – John Graham-CummingIf you never enter the lottery or have no intention of taking part in a clinical trial, you might think that random numbers don't really matter to you. This idea, first demonstrated by a company called Silicon Graphics in the late 1990s, is one of multiple methods that Cloudflare has up its sleeves for generating random numbers to secure information. And about a decade ago, security researchers at the University of Cambridge, including Murdoch, famously realised that scammers were able to steal money from people by predicting the supposedly random numbers generated inside chip-and-pin cards.
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