Meaning of "Yarrow"

[Gregory Gulik]

*SIGH*
A quick google search found this:

http://www.schneier.com/yarrow.html

About Yarrow
Yarrow is a flowering plant with distinctive flat flowerheads and lacy 
leaves. In China, its stalks have been used as a randomizer in 
divination since the second millenium B.C. For this reason, Counterpane 
chose the name Yarrow for its new pseudorandom number generator (PRNG).

..and..

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/y/yarrow02.html



Shanon Fernald wrote:
> Just curious. This has been bugging me. Wasn't "Shrike" the name of a previous release of redhat? I know that the Shrike is from the great sci-fi novel Hyperion. Now if I'm not mistaken, wasn't there a "Yarrow" tree or something in the book too? Is that the relation between these two release names? Sorry if I am totally off-base here, but in the back of my mind this has been driving me crazy.

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