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Comment by MichaelMoser123

9 years ago

Crc checksums can be wrong if you have multiple bit errors like runs of zeros. (This resets the polynomial computation) http://noahdavids.org/self_published/CRC_and_checksum.html

but crc is good to check against single bit errors.

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