Algoritmo
para calcular resúmenes criptográficos. Produce resúmenes de 512 bits. Fue
diseñado en el programa europeo NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signatures,
Integrity and Encryption).
The Whirlpool hash algorithm
was designed by Vincent Rijmen (co-designer of the AES encryption algorithm)
and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto. The size of the output of this algorithm is 512
bits. The first version of Whirlpool, now called Whirlpool-0, was published in
November 2000. The second version, now called Whirlpool-T, was selected for the
NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity and Encryption)
portfolio of cryptographic primitives (a project organized by the European
Union, similar to the AES contest). The third (final) version of Whirlpool was
adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the IEC
in the ISO/IEC ISO-10118-3:2004 international standard.
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/whirlpool.php