In addition, Microsoft said Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), a major update expected sometime in the first half of 2008, includes fixes that address the random number generator problem.

It also provides you a Random Number Generator formula to quickly generate a random number from a range. But, how you can use this formula to generate a strong password?

[Karl] was in need of a hardware random number generator, but is needs had a few caveats: it needed to be cheap, and sufficiently random. Random number generation can get quite crazy with Geiger ...

Here’s how the issue manifests, per The Globe and Mail: Excel uses pseudo-random number generators, a class of algorithms that rely on formulas to generate numbers.

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Cryptography, too, relies heavily on random numbers for the generation of unbreakable keys. Better, cheaper ways of generating and handling such numbers are therefore always welcome.