this.description="Whirlpool is a cryptographic hash function designed by Vincent Rijmen (co-creator of AES) and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, who first described it in 2000.<br><br>Several variants exist:<ul><li>Whirlpool-0 is the original version released in 2000.</li><li>Whirlpool-T is the first revision, released in 2001, improving the generation of the s-box.</li><li>Wirlpool is the latest revision, released in 2003, fixing a flaw in the difusion matrix.</li></ul>";