True random numbers

Bill Frantz frantz at netcom.com
Sat Feb 17 21:59:10 PST 1996


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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