Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:45:49 -0500 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add CRC32C chksums to crypto routines |
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Clay Haapala wrote:
> This patch against 2.6.1 adds CRC32C checksumming capabilities to the > crypto routines. The structure of it is based wholly on the existing > digest (md5) routines, the main difference being that chksums are > often used in an "accumulator" fashion, effectively requiring one to > set the seed, and the digest algorithms don't do that.
This looks interesting; do you know of any other chksum algorithms which might need to be implemented in the kernel?
- james -- James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
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