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==Principles== Yarrow's main design principles are: resistance to attacks, easy use by programmers with no cryptography background, and reusability of existing building blocks. The former widely used designs such as [[ANSI X9.17]] and [[RSAREF 2.0 PRNG]] have loopholes that provide attack opportunities under some circumstances. Some of them are not designed with real-world attacks in mind. Yarrow also aims to provide easy integration, to enable system designers with little knowledge of PRNG functionality.<ref name="report1999">{{cite journal |last1=Kelsey |first1=John |last2=Schneier |first2=Bruce |last3=Ferguson |first3=Niels |title=Yarrow-160: Notes on the Design and Analysis of the Yarrow Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number Generator |journal=Sixth Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography |date=August 1999 |volume=1758 |pages=13β33 |doi=10.1007/3-540-46513-8_2 |url=https://www.schneier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/paper-yarrow.pdf}}</ref>
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