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by croikle 4663 days ago
No. You cannot outsource your random number generation unless you have an ultimately trusted third party. The important thing is that nobody knows your random numbers. After all, random.org could be malicious or compromised, too.
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If I were the NSA, I'd definitively try to run a service (or two) like random.org. It'll probably be cheaper than my tor exit nodes, and mixmaster remailers...