whirlpool(1)

whirlpool1

Implementation of the whirlpool hash algorithm

Usage

whirlpool [file]

Overview

This is an implementation of the whirlpool hash algorithm which is based on the AES encryption algorithm and standardised in ISO/IEC 10118-3. This is the reference C implementation.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

Author

This manual page was written by Matthew Johnson [email protected] for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GPL version 2.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GPL version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

From whirlpool 1-2 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.