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Would it at all be possible to serve "randomness" at those levels as a service?

• hga 12y ago
  Which levels? You can certainly serve true randomness sufficient to seed cryptographically secure PRNG generators. Right now all my VMs and systems at home are served that from a good source of true randomness. I've seen such sources on the net, e.g. http://www.random.org/ http://www.random.org/ The big issue is trust, especially when it's relatively easy and cheap to provide true randomness locally. And as mentioned, a standard desktop can generate its own randomness through things like mouse movements, which is very cheap. The major use case would be VMs, and I suspect few who run them would trust an external source, unless their cloud vendor offered it as a service. I could see vendors being reluctant to do so for liability reasons.