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In article <bontchev.717961294@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
writes:
>I need a 32-bit cryptographically strong checksum.

I'd say this is a contradiction in terms.  Four billion is not a very large
number.  A low-end workstation executes this many instructions in minutes.  A
given message could probably be spoofed with a few weeks of CPU time.  Of
course if you send out many messages, it's that much easier for your opponent
to find a match.  I think even 64 bits isn't all that safe.  There's a reason
why good hash algorithms put out 128 bits or more.

--
Joe Keane, amateur cryptologist
jgk@osc.com (uunet!amdcad!osc!jgk)