EntropyGEN: A script that does random disk operations to generate entropy for private key generation.

entropygen.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from os import system
from sys import argv

print("EntropyGEN v0.4")
print("USAGE: %s <BYTES_PER_SECOND>" % argv[0])
try:
	try:
		if len(argv) > 1: blen = int(argv[1])
		else: blen = 100
	except:
		blen = 100
	print(" - Generating entropy with %d bytes per second." % blen)
	print(" - Press Ctrl+C to stop the generation of entropy.")
	system("pv -tpL%d /dev/urandom > /tmp/.entropyfile" % blen)
	raise Exception()
except:
	system("rm /tmp/.entropyfile")
	exit()