Whirlpool

WHIRLPOOL is a cryptographic hash function designed by Vincent Rijmen and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto. The hash has been recommended by the NESSIE project. It has also been adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as part of the joint ISO/IEC 10118-3 international standard.

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WHIRLPOOL is a hash designed after the Square block cipher. WHIRLPOOL is a Miyaguchi-Preneel construction based on a substantially modified Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Given a message less than 2256 bits in length, it returns a 512-bit message digest.

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The authors have declared that "WHIRLPOOL is not (and will never be) patented. It may be used free of charge for any purpose. The reference implementations are in the public domain."

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The algorithm is named after the Whirlpool Galaxy in Canes Venatici.

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Cryptographic hash function: In cryptography, a cryptographic hash function is a hash function with certain additional security properties to make it suitable for use as a primitive in various information security applications, such as authentication and message integrity. A hash function takes a long string (or message) of any...

Vincent Rijmen: Vincent Rijmen (born 16 October 1970) is a cryptographer and one of the designers of the Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard. Rijmen is also the co-designer of the WHIRLPOOL cryptographic hash function, and the block ciphers KHAZAD, Square, NOEKEON and SHARK....

Paulo S. L. M. Barreto: REDIRECT Paulo S. L. M. Barreto...