Use this to drain your available entropy
Filed under hacks on jan 08, 2010
Tired of the huge amounts of available entropy generated by your RNG being wasted? Here is the solution:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
DIR=$(mktemp -t -d rsa-art-XXXXXX)
trap "rm -f $DIR/key*; rmdir $DIR" EXIT HUP INT QUIT TERM
while :
do
ART=$(ssh-keygen -t rsa -f $DIR/key -N "" | tail -n 11)
rm -f $DIR/key
/bin/echo -e "\x1Bc"
echo "$ART"
done
It even gives you very neat “RSA ASCII art” …
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