University Partnership Program
True Random Numbers, Delivered to Your Campus
Real Random partners with universities to bring patented electromechanical entropy hardware and Entropy-as-a-Service directly to your campus — for research, teaching, and departmental cryptographic operations. $0 for approved academic research.
What Your University Gets
Everything You Need to Research, Teach, and Secure Your Campus With True Entropy
On-campus TRNG placement
Managed 2U appliances and C-3 portable units placed in your department — owned and maintained by Real Random. Nothing to procure, patch, or decommission.
EaaS across your crypto ops
Production entropy for departmental cryptographic operations, delivered via a dedicated REST API instance for your institution.
Research collaboration
Entropy validation studies, SP 800-90B research, co-authored publications, and sponsored-project pathways with a commercial entropy partner.
Curriculum & student access
Developer-portal accounts for students, course integration, capstone projects, and provably fair gaming labs.
$0 for academic research. Approved university research projects pay nothing for EaaS access.
Research Opportunities
Research Your Faculty Can Publish
Real Random provides live physical entropy, hardware access, and data pipelines for research in underexplored areas of cryptography and security.
Independent entropy validation
NIST STS and SP 800-90B test campaigns against a live physical source. Produce citable third-party results at $0 cost for approved academic research.
PQC & PKI entropy research
Entropy failure modes in post-quantum and PKI contexts — an underexplored layer with active standards momentum. Real Random's NIST ESV validation is in progress at an NVLAP-accredited lab.
Game integrity & provably fair systems
RNG certification, fairness auditing, and game-engine integration research for game development and computer science programs.
Sponsored & co-funded projects
Pathways to NSF and DoD-adjacent proposals with a commercial entropy partner supplying instrumentation, data, and technical collaboration.
Featured Partner
The University of Tampa
Real Random's flagship research partnership is with the University of Tampa, where students conduct hands-on entropy research using Real Random hardware in the university's computer science and cybersecurity programs. The collaboration produces peer-reviewable analysis of physical entropy generation and helps train the next generation of cryptographers with practical exposure to hardware-level security.
On-Premises Option
Hardware in Your Building
Real Random retains, monitors, and maintains all hardware placed on your campus. Nothing to purchase, patch, or decommission. Choose the form factor that fits your deployment.
Real Random TRNG — 2U rack-mount
Data-center appliance for department-wide EaaS supply. Dedicated API instance for your institution's cryptographic operations.
C-3 portable unit
Compact TRNG for labs, classrooms, and field research — the same physical entropy source, desk-side.
Managed placement. All hardware remains Real Random property. We handle deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and decommission. Your team gets the entropy — we handle everything else.
The API
Entropy in One Call
REST delivery from cloud EaaS or your on-prem unit. Same interface, either way.
curl https://api.real-random.com/v1/entropy \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"bytes": 32,
"format": "hex"
}'{
"entropy": "9f4e...0c21a",
"bytes": 32,
"source": "electromechanical-trng",
"timestamp": "2026-07-04T14:02:11Z"
}Illustrative call — see live documentation in the developer portal for current endpoints and parameters.
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Why It Matters
Entropy: The Layer Nobody Monitors
Every key your institution generates is only as strong as the randomness beneath it. When entropy fails, it fails silently — and catastrophically.
Factorable keys in the wild
Weak or correlated entropy has produced RSA keys that researchers factored at scale — a failure invisible until it is catastrophic.
Silent hardware faults
Degraded noise sources keep emitting plausible-looking output. Nothing alarms. Certificates keep issuing.
PQC raises the stakes
Post-quantum algorithms consume more random material than classical crypto — and inherit every weakness in the source that feeds them.
How It Works
The Only Entropy Source You Can Watch at Work
Patented electromechanical True Random Number Generation. Physical dice suspended in viscous fluid, read optically. No silicon noise models. No trust-me black box.
Physical dice
Macro-scale motion in viscous fluid — chaotic in a way no algorithm can model or predict.
Optical read
Cameras capture each outcome as it happens, auditable at every step.
Entropy pool
Raw readings are conditioned per SP 800-90B practice before they ever leave the device.
EaaS API
REST delivery to your apps and infrastructure, on-prem or cloud.
9 U.S. patents and 36 international patent rights, protected through 2042. Hardware is never sold — retained, managed, and monetized exclusively as a service.
The Process
How a Partnership Starts
From free developer account to fully deployed hardware and research collaboration — a typical evaluate-to-placement timeline is one semester.
Evaluate
Free portal accounts. Pull live entropy, run your own tests — $0 for academic research.
Place & connect
2U and/or C-3 hardware placement plus a dedicated EaaS instance for your department.
Research & teach
Validation studies, capstones, co-publication, and sponsored-research pathways.
Protect
Metered production: campus endpoints protected per month at education pricing.
Typical evaluate-to-placement timeline: one semester.
Get Started
Let's Talk About Your Program
Every partnership starts with a conversation. Tell us about your department and we'll help you find the right fit — free developer accounts are available for faculty and students who want to start testing right away.
- Free developer accounts for faculty and students
- $0 EaaS access for approved academic research
- Live documentation, sample code, and test endpoints
$ curl api.real-random.com/v1/entropy \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $YOUR_API_KEY"
{
"entropy": "9f4e...0c21a",
"bytes": 32,
"plan": "academic",
"quota": "unlimited (research)"
}
$