At 05:14 PM 6/21/2007, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>I'm just not convinced this is a CRC any more.

Falsifying the hypothesis that an unknown algorithm is a CRC is easy, since 
CRC is linear.  Generate some random test vectors (identical length) and 
then check that f( a xor b ) == f( a ) xor f( b ).  You'll get a pretty 
quick falsification if one is present.

Eric


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