Re: CRC

• Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 05:01:17 PST
• From:
  hpa@trantor.storm.net (H. Peter Anvin)
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In article <3120F052.34D9@baymoo.sfsu.edu>,
Richard Connamacher  <phantom@baymoo.sfsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hrm..  how accurate is it?  I would imagine that whever you take a
> large chunk of data and compress it into a tiny signature, it would
> be possible for two different sets of data, or more, to have the same
> signature.  I assume it's much faster than checking if the data
> itself is identical on both sides of the connection :)
>

Correct... however, what do you want the CRC (MD5 would probably be
better, really) to operate on?  Values?  Verbs?  Properties?
Objects?  Those would all have to be handled differently internally.

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