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I have an app I wrote in VC++ 6.0 that outputs a binary file. Since this will be transmitted over a TCP and UDP network it has been requested that I add checksum to the file. How do I do that? I've read things here about checksums but they're all not a basic" How do I do it" type questions. Any help or info is most appreciated.
Very simple, you make a sum of all bytes of your data.
You don't care about overflow.
After all your data bytes, you send one more byte - a checksum byte.
The application that receives data makes the same operation. It uses the same algorithm to make a sum of all data bytes.
Then it check it against the received checksum.
If equal, no transmittion error occurs.
If not equal, request for the new transmission.
It is theoreticaly possible that two errors compensate in the cehcksum but this scenario has a very low possibility. So, this principle is not 100% sure, but it significant reduces transmittion errors.
I heard of something called MD5 but I haven't figured out how to implement it yet.
check :
http://www.boost.org
about CRC ...
Thanks Neo.... I ended up going with CRC rather than the MD5. Thanks for the help!:)Quote: