BrowserUk,
...ASCII or ISO text, certain parts of the input range -- many of the control characters <32; and characters >126 -- will not appear...
I hadn't thought about it but since the files were encrypted, more character sequences might appear. As far as the 'SimCRC64' algorithm, it was just a simple CRC routine. I don't have the actual code, but it was something like this.
my $crc = crc64(\$output); ## Add crc check to output data
sub crc64 ## Add crc check to output data
{ my $data = shift; my $crc = ""; my $len = length($$data); my $pos
+ = 0;
while ( $pos < $len )
{ $crc = $crc ^ ( substr($$data,$pos,8) );
$pos += 8;
}
return ( $crc );
}
It was part of the test to see what the worst case would be. As I previously said, I didn't expect the results.
Thank you
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