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From: mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar)
Subject: Re: How good is CRC-32 at burst error detection?
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References: <JTKOHL.90Dec3115033@quicksilver.MIT.EDU>
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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 22:02:51 GMT

In article <JTKOHL.90Dec3115033@quicksilver.MIT.EDU> jtkohl@MIT.EDU (John T Kohl) writes:
>I'm considering using CRC-32 to checksum the contents of an encryption,
>and some literature suggests that such a checksum needs to be good at
>burst error detection.
>

A 32 bit CRC should be able to detect all burst errors affecting up to
32 bits (ie. the distance from the 1 bit in error to the last bit in error
is 32 bits). 

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