---
name: "whirlpool"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "whirlpool"
version: "1-2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/whirlpool"
---

# whirlpool(1)

Implementation of the whirlpool hash algorithm

## NAME

whirlpool — Implementation of the whirlpool hash algorithm

## DESCRIPTION

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.

## SYNOPSIS

**whirlpool** \[file\]

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matthew Johnson mjj29@debian.org 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.