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You are not testing a crypto hash. "Crypto hash" means it is cryptographically strong, not truncated to 16 bits. For example ZFS with checksum=sha256 will use t
by mrb 10y ago
You are not testing a crypto hash. "Crypto hash" means it is cryptographically strong, not truncated to 16 bits. For example ZFS with checksum=sha256 will use the full 256-bit hash for detecting data corruption.
- jepler 10y agoYup, you're right. if you use a full size cryptographic hash then the number of undetected errors can be treated as 0 regardless of hamming distance. On the other hand, it has 8x the storage overhead of a 32-bit CRC.