A true random number generator service has gone online courtesy of the Quantum Random Bit Generator Service developed at the Ruder Boškovic Institute in Croatia. The ‘Quantum Random Bit Generator’ at the heart of QRBGS is a fast non-deterministic random bit (number) generator whose randomness relies on intrinsic randomness of the quantum physical process of photonic emission in semiconductors and subsequent detection by photoelectric effect.

The service currently provides access via a stand alone CLI client as well as libraries for C/C++ and MATLAB plugins allowing users to request random bits in a number of data type such as int, long, float etc. This is excellent for application developers requiring high entropy randomness and is particularly useful for stuff such as cryptography and online gaming. It looks like access via a web service will be provided soon.