Design Features
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). It takes a message of any length less than 2256 bits and returns a 512-bit message digest.
The authors have declared that "WHIRLPOOL is not (and will never be) patented. It may be used free of charge for any purpose."
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