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Used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage
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checksum
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A checksum is a small-size datum from a block of digital data for the purpose of detecting errors which may have been introduced during its transmission or storage . It is usually applied to an installation file after it is received from the download server. ...
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n. a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage
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n. a number, derived by applying a suitable algorithm to some data, used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission, storage or data entry vb. To compute a checksum.
Usage examples of checksum.
For reasons not worth discussing here, it is both more efficient and safer to have TCP compute a separate checksum for the TCP header and data.
When the other end receives the packet, it recomputes the checksum, and throws the packet away if the answer disagrees with the original.
It still has source and destination port numbers, and a checksum, but that's about it.
Slowly, the numbers began to change as each memory location in the electronic relay was examined, its data-correct checksum value computed, the memory location analyzed and the resident checksurn value computed.
If the two checksum values were different, it would indicate a problem in that particular memory location.
The receiving computer performs the same calculation on what should be the same data and compares its checksum with the one that has been sent.
Basically the idea was very simple: rig the packets to carry a bad checksum, which means that the receiving Soviet ground-station throws them out as garbage.
When the checksums failed to match, the receiving computer would simply assume that the message it had assembled was corrupted, disregard it, and signal for a repeat transmission.
What Colonel Raymond was saying was that the checksums for the packets containing the Tangerine file would be deliberately miscalculated.
There're going to be many sleepless engineers earning their overtime checksumming the operating system files for signs of retrovirus in fection.
He'd found that the meter and rhythm of poetry provided its own checksum, a bit like the checksums in computer data.
Back in Athena, whatever elaborate metaphoric action they'd used to instruct the communications software to halt them, append suitable explanatory headers and checksums, then turn the whole package bit-by-bit into a stream of modulated gamma rays, it could never have fully prepared them for the fact that in a subjective instant they'd be stepping ninety-seven years into the future, and ninety-seven light years from home.
No one, not even the Chows, have identical checksums, but those are the closest I have ever measured between two people.
I'm sure who ever did this included a balancing checksum to cause the bytes in the virus program to disappear.