[LEAPSECS] crc-8?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <3953BC42-6880-40DC-B14B-745E33C9533F at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

>> With CRC the actual message does not matter, only which and how many
>> bit positions where flipped, [...]
>
>The actual message can matter if the data are correlated in some 
>fashion, [...]

Nope.  Only if the probability of bit-flipping depends on the data,
but that has nothing to do with CRC.


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