Thanks to the University of Geneva and the company id Quantique anyone can download true random numbers. The numbers are generated on demand using a quantum random number generator. They are testing a client/server appliation to download the numbers directly. This would be an excellent application for a web service.
It would be nice to have a reliable source of random numbers. Although I would think if they were to be used for a cryptographic application you would need to have the transmission of them encrypted. Although if you used those random numbers in combination with a local psudo-random number generator and an entropy gathering system you would probably be in really good shape.
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