FAQ | Questions and Answers

Are there not enough RNGs out there to create a new one?

In fact, no. Most of RNGs offered by standard development kits provide good level of randomness for most of statistical purposes, but struggle to provide high-quality randomness needed for the purposes of information security. Gathering high-quality entropy and transforming it to appropriately distributed secure random numbers is a challenge that only professional RNGs can address.

I am running a digital service / making a digital product. Do I need to use your product?

It depends on the service or product you are making. The primary users of Entropy On Tap are vendors who work with IT security such as certification authorities, key vault makers, and secure data storage hosts. If you only use random number generators for general purposes, such as for generating unique file identifiers or linearly distributed samples of data, Entropy On Tap would be an overkill.

How can I be sure that the quality of your random numbers is as high as you claim?

We routinely test our random number sequences using a well-known, open-source, industry-standard set of statistical tests. We collect our entropy from a variety of unpredictable, highly-random sources. Our research is based on the work of highly skilled maths and IT security professionals that are permanent members of our team and provide us with their expertise on the subject matter.