Randomness

I have recently been immersed in the theory and practice of random number generation while working on Arbitrand, a new high-quality true random number generation service hosted in AWS. Because of that, I am starting a sequence of blog posts on randomness and random number generators. This post is the first of the sequence, and focuses what random number generators are and how to test them. Formally, random number generators are systems that produce a stream of bits (or numbers) with two properties: