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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!lordSnooty
  2. From: lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
  4. Subject: Polynomial Deduction
  5. Message-ID: <69133@cup.portal.com>
  6. Date: Sun,  8 Nov 92 19:05:26 PST
  7. Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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  11. On reading a couple of texts on error-correcting codes, the
  12. following question occurred to me:
  13.  
  14. What is an efficient method for deducing the checksum generating
  15. polynomial, given many examples of a block code with an appended checksum?
  16.  
  17. Andrew Palfreyman
  18.