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A large class of checksum algorithms have the following pattern: Think of the bits in a file as the coefficients in a polynomial P(x). Divide P(x) by a fixed polynomial Q(x) mod 2 and keep the remainder. Report the remainder as a sequence of bits. In practice there’s a little more to the algorithm than […] The post Checksum polynomials first appeared on John D. Cook....