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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add CRC32C chksums to crypto routines
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
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James Morris
<jmorris@redhat.com>


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