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Re: True random numbers

To: <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: True random numbers
From: [email protected] (Bill Frantz)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 21:02:29 -0800
Sender: [email protected]

At  9:25 PM 2/17/96 -0400, Sandy Harris wrote:
>A possible exception: I wonder if the checksums on Ethernet or IP
>packets use a reasonably strong CRC algorithm.

The algorithm used with IP packets isn't even particulary good for error
detection.  It was designed for easy computation on slow, narrow chips.


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