Boffins achieve breakthrough’ in random number generation
method of generating random numbers that could shake up computer encryption.
University of Texas computer science professor David Zuckerman and PhD student Eshan Chattopadhyay have found that a “high-quality” random number could be generated by combining two “low-quality” random sources.
You can read their report, Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions, here.
Random number generation is used for a variety of applications including cryptography and scientific modelling.