Re: base64 and checksums

> 1. Someone propose a relatively simple checksum algorithm to be applied
> to the content prior to encoding.
Okay, here's a specific proposal:  CRC-16.  The implementation used in
bencode uses a 512-byte table and six integer operations per byte,
counting table lookup as two (indexing and fetch).  The cost does not
seem excessive, and the code is freely available.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          
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