Java Glossary : random numbers

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random numbers: There are two kinds of random numbers, pseudo-random numbers that can be rapidly generated from mathematical formulae, and true random numbers, generated from some random physical process such as radioactive decay. Pseudo-random numbers are useless for cryptography. You need true random numbers for that.
Collections.shuffle will scramble the objects in an ArrayList.
modulus ¤ Orion Random Number Generator ¤ pseudo-random numbers ¤ true random numbers ¤ uncrackable encryption

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