Quantum Mechanics Provide Truly Random Numbers on Demand

There’s no cheating this random number generator

From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.

NIST and Partners Use Quantum Mechanics to Make a Factory for Random Numbers (NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology)

) Members of the team who created the CURBy quantum random number generator. From left to right, Jasper Palfree (University of Colorado Boulder), Gautam Kavuri (NIST) and Krister Shalm (NIST). Credit:NIST Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also key in security; if a password or code is an…

Quantum mechanics provide truly random numbers on demand

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is also key in security; if a password or code is an unguessable string of numbers, it's harder to crack. Many of our cryptographic systems today use random number generators to produce secure keys.

Cheat-proof random numbers generated from quantum entanglement

A quantum random-number generator has been developed that uses classical cryptography to certify that its output was produced by a quantum process. A quantum random-number generator has been developed that uses classical cryptography to certify that its output was produced by a quantum process.

Rewrite Traceable random numbers from a non-local quantum advantage as a

The unpredictability of random numbers is fundamental to both digital security1,2 and applications that fairly distribute resources3,4. However, existing random number generators have limitations—the generation processes cannot be fully traced, audited and certified to be unpredictable. The algorithmic steps used in pseudorandom number generators5 are auditable, but they cannot guarantee that their outputs were a priori unpredictable given knowl…

Microsoft and Apple Readying Support for Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) in Next versions of iOS and Windows - Quantum Computing Report

At its recent Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC25), Apple announced that its next major operating system releases for Mac and Windows,  iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and visionOS 26, will support negotiation of a quantum-secure key exchange algorithm with TLS 1.3 servers that support it. If a server does not yet support one of [...] The post Microsoft and Apple Readying Support for Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) in Next versions of iOS…