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- noun Plural form of
checksum .
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Examples
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Account name checksums meant to ensure that if the user types the wrong account name, he is warned about it.
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However, even on a standard system like Outlook, there are "checksums" within eMail that make it evident that an eMail has been tampered with.
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SCTP offers the following features: • Network-level fault tolerance through support for multihoming • Minimized delay in data delivery by sending data in multiple streams • Acknowledged, error-free non-duplicated transfer of data • Data fragmentation to conform to discovered maximum transmission unit (MTU) size • Sequenced delivery of user messages within multiple streams • Optional bundling of multiple user messages into an SCTP packet • Improved SYN-flood protection • Preservation of message boundaries SCTP also includes mechanisms, such as checksums, sequence numbers, and selective retransmission of data, to detect data corruption, loss of data, and duplication of data.
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And, I'm sure you're aware that ISBNs have checksums.
msagara: Amazon listing, part 2 msagara 2009
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I'm surprised you guys didn't mention checksums at all.
How Do You Know If Your Download Really Has A Virus? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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That would be a good situation for using checksums off the developer's site.
How Do You Know If Your Download Really Has A Virus? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Weak AM radio transmissions can be heard through oceans of interference that would garble the checksums of digital communications.
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If checksums & hashes uniqueley identified every file, then theoretically you could use the checksum instead of the original file, as you would then be able to create the file by reversing the checksum algorithm.
How Do You Know If Your Download Really Has A Virus? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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I'm not an expert on any of this by any means, but I do know that checksums are used in lots of cases when you want to make sure the date you downloaded is correct and intact. pettiblay
How Do You Know If Your Download Really Has A Virus? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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At FOMS we decided that if we were starting from scratch, the first was a good idea and we were split on the checksums.
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