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The Internet checksum, [1] [2] also called the IPv4 header checksum is a checksum used in version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) to detect corruption in the header of IPv4 packets. It is carried in the IPv4 packet header , and represents the 16-bit result of the summation of the header words.
The content of such spam may often vary in its details, which would render normal checksumming ineffective. By contrast, a "fuzzy checksum" reduces the body text to its characteristic minimum, then generates a checksum in the usual manner. This greatly increases the chances of slightly different spam emails producing the same checksum.
Often confused to be a CRC, but actually a checksum; see Fletcher's checksum: CRC-17-CAN CAN FD [51] 0x1685B 0x1B42D 0x1685B 0x1B42D even CRC-21-CAN CAN FD [51] 0x102899 0x132281 0x064503 0x18144C even CRC-24 FlexRay [39] 0x5D6DCB 0xD3B6BA 0xA76D75 0xAEB6E5 even
The IPv4 header is variable in size due to the optional 14th field (Options). The IHL field contains the size of the IPv4 header; it has 4 bits that specify the number of 32-bit words in the header. The minimum value for this field is 5, [33] which indicates a length of 5 × 32 bits = 160 bits = 20 bytes. As a 4-bit field, the maximum value is ...
When TCP runs over IPv4, the method used to compute the checksum is defined as follows: [16] The checksum field is the 16-bit ones' complement of the ones' complement sum of all 16-bit words in the header and text. The checksum computation needs to ensure the 16-bit alignment of the data being summed.
When UDP runs over IPv4, the checksum is computed using a pseudo header that contains some of the same information from the real IPv4 header. [7]: 2 The pseudo header is not the real IPv4 header used to send an IP packet, it is used only for the checksum calculation. UDP checksum computation is optional for IPv4.
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Network packets may contain a checksum, parity bits or cyclic redundancy checks to detect errors that occur during transmission. [6] At the transmitter, the calculation is performed before the packet is sent. When received at the destination, the checksum is recalculated, and compared with the one in the packet.