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- From: andrew@alice.uucp (Andrew Hume)
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- i would hate to cause trouble but can anyone justify
- why cksum uses anything other than CRC-32 for its polynomial?
- (i am not 1000% sure it isn't but am fairly sure.)
- it really frosts my shorts when CCITT and other folks
- bust their chops developing and testing 32 bit CRCs, find a really good
- one and then posix picks some hokey thing whose only apparent recommendation
- is that pathalias uses it (not strictly the highest form of praise).
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 23
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