I find James Plank's tutorials and accompanying code very good: http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/CS-07-593/ http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/pap

I find James Plank's tutorials and accompanying code very good: http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/CS-07-593/ http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/CS-07-593/ And if you want an excellent description of how Reed-Solomon coding is efficiently implemented in Linux, try this: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf