Don’t make me show you the wikipedia article.
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 hours agoYou can’t
That’s not what a checksum is
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Can’t argue with that logic.
I guess I will go back to using dd to hack the Pentagon
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
They probably mean EC code? That said, you can use checksums to “correct” errors if you have redundant copies of the data (by reading from the other copy if one copy has a bad checksum)