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vawjr08@ibm.net wrote:

>CRC is the remainder after logically dividing (use XOR instead of subtract) a 
>message/record/whathaveyou by a 'polynomial'.  A well chosen polynomial finds 
>most common transmission errors.  CRC16 has a polynomial of:
>x^16 + x^15 + x^2 + 1
>when doing the divide, you'll be left with a remainder which fits into 16 bits.
>if this is then appended to the original message, the reciver simply does the 
>divide over the entire datastream and gets 0 as the remainder.

>MD5 - damifino... I haven't worked with it, nor read anything about it


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