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Nettle
Nettle.Yarrow
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Class Nettle.Yarrow
- Description
Yarrow is a family of pseudo-randomness generators, designed for
cryptographic use, by John Kelsey, Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson.
Yarrow-160 is described in a paper at
http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow.html, and it uses SHA1 and
triple-DES, and has a 160-bit internal state. Nettle implements
Yarrow-256, which is similar, but uses SHA256 and AES to get an
internal state of 256 bits.
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