At 12:32 AM 6/27/2004 -0400, Byron A Jeff wrote:

>On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 02:12:17AM +0200, Kyrre Aalerud wrote:
>> Genious.  I will test this.  If true, it's definately a great way to do
>> it...
>
>I was going to repeat my caveat from my other post. But for some reason I
>felt paranoid so I decided to run some experiments. So I wrote a quick
>program that generates a random 8 byte message. It then pseudo-randomly
>generates XOR and sums for 50 million test patterns. Emperical testing is
>interesting. A few observations.

Shouldn't be surprising. No matter how you generate it, an 8 bit verification has a 1/256 chance of being wrong. 16 bit is 2^8 more secure, and so on.

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