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+[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/blitter.com/go/cryptmt?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/blitter.com/go/cryptmt)
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+Implementation of cryptMTv1 stream cipher (but with mtwist64 as base accum) 
+https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/165.pdf 
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+Uses Mersenne Twister 64 golang implementation supplied by [cuixin](https://gist.github.com/cuixin): [gist](https://gist.github.com/cuixin/1b8b6bd7bfbde8fe76e8)