Cloudflare has today announced a new service called “League of Entropy”. This service is said to be extremely helpful for cryptocurrencies and various other factors which include numbers. This new service from Cloudflare will let you generate random numbers. These numbers can be used by companies, agencies or any other user as a random input instead of using numbers which have a context to them.
It is a fact that people need to use random number inputs in certain cases where they need to input something. However, this can be a silly service for someone who is not a technical user and Cloudflare understands that too.
Cloudflare took the example of a lottery person who was found to be cheating in the 1980s using heavy weight balls to select the numbers randomly out of the lottery box. This means that the lottery was not so random after all and the lottery person would have taken some benefits out of it. Similarly, an Iowa man also did the same kind of tampering with randomness beacon’s algorithm which is believed to be the most complex cheating in US history.
Talking about League of Entropy, it is a five-server network that will generate and make available secure streams of random numbers and each of these servers will generate their own part of a larger stream of random numbers. This numbers will then be pooled together on a public service available to everyone.
With its new service, Cloudflare is hoping that its service would be used for lotteries, signing election audits, blockchains, and by regular users alike, looking for a truly random and unique password. Also, Cloudflare has said that there is nothing exclusive about its service and other organizations can also join if they want to. At the moment, this randomness beacon includes organizations such as École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Cloudflare, UChile, Kudelski Security, and Protocol Labs.