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.

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Researchers reviewing live entropy output on a laptop beside a Real Random 2U TRNG appliance in a university lab

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.

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.

Departmental scale

Real Random TRNG — 2U rack-mount

Data-center appliance for department-wide EaaS supply. Dedicated API instance for your institution's cryptographic operations.

Real Random C-3 portable entropy generator with dice tumbling in illuminated fluid

Lab & classroom

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.

Request

curl https://api.real-random.com/v1/entropy \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "bytes": 32,
        "format": "hex"
      }'

Response

{
  "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