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Re: single-bit errors
From: |
Rich Salz |
Subject: |
Re: single-bit errors |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:15:09 -0500 |
> TCP is reasonbly good, but it is far from being 100% perfect, even on
> Ethernet.
>
> SSH, with encryption and LZ compression, will detect *lots* more errors
> in the transport!
Hunh? The only place I noticed hashing was in auth challenge.
I couldn't see anywhere that SSH puts an error-correction code on top of the
TCP stream.
The CRC could let corruption happen, but I betcha all sorts of things break.
Everyone assumes TCP doesn't mess up the bytes in-transit.
/r$