High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yarrow algorithm is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. The name is taken from the yarrow plant, the stalks of which are dried and used as a randomising agent in I Ching divination. It was designed by Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, and Niels Ferguson of Counterpane Labs (Kelsey et al., 1999). The ...Visas aprašymas
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yarrow algorithm is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. The name is taken from the yarrow plant, the stalks of which are dried and used as a randomising agent in I Ching divination. It was designed by Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, and Niels Ferguson of Counterpane Labs (Kelsey et al., 1999). The Yarrow algorithm is explicitly unpatented and royalty-free; no license is required to use it. Yarrow is incorporated in Mac OS X, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD for their /dev/random devices. An improved design from Ferguson and Schneier, Fortuna, is described in their book, Practical Cryptography.