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Subject: RE: viruses and checksums
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Date: 8 Mar 89 22:29:00 GMT
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I was under the impression that, in contrast to a checksum, which would give
the same number regardless of the order of the bytes in a set, a CRC would
come out differently if you had the same bytes in a different order.  If
that is the case, introducing new code into a file (even with a separate
checksum of zero) would always be detected by a CRC.  Is this right?