After an extensive editing and approval process, the FAA has released the report that I did with Kevin Driscoll & Brendan Hall from Honeywell. You can see it here:
Selection of Cyclic Redundancy Code and Checksum Algorithms to Ensure Critical Data Integrity
DOT/FAA/TC-14/49
http://www.tc.faa.gov/its/worldpac/techrpt/tc14-49.pdf
Cyclic Redundancy Codes, Checksums, and related issues for computer system data integrity.
Saturday, April 11, 2015
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Why To Avoid Hash Algorithms If What You Really Need Is A Checksum
Sometimes we hear that someone plans to use a hash function for fault detection instead of a checksum. This is probably not the best idea, b...
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