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31.\"	@(#)cksum.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95
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33.Dd April 28, 1995
34.Dt CKSUM 1
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm cksum ,
38.Nm sum
39.Nd display file checksums and block counts
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm
42.Op Fl o Ar 1 | 2 | 3
43.Op Ar
44.Nm sum
45.Op Ar
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility writes to the standard output three whitespace separated
50fields for each input file.
51These fields are a checksum
52.Tn CRC ,
53the total number of octets in the file and the file name.
54If no file name is specified, the standard input is used and no file name
55is written.
56.Pp
57The
58.Nm sum
59utility is identical to the
60.Nm
61utility, except that it defaults to using historic algorithm 1, as
62described below.
63It is provided for compatibility only.
64.Pp
65The options are as follows:
66.Bl -tag -width indent
67.It Fl o
68Use historic algorithms instead of the (superior) default one.
69.Pp
70Algorithm 1 is the algorithm used by historic
71.Bx
72systems as the
73.Xr sum 1
74algorithm and by historic
75.At V
76systems as the
77.Xr sum 1
78algorithm when using the
79.Fl r
80option.
81This is a 16-bit checksum, with a right rotation before each addition;
82overflow is discarded.
83.Pp
84Algorithm 2 is the algorithm used by historic
85.At V
86systems as the
87default
88.Xr sum 1
89algorithm.
90This is a 32-bit checksum, and is defined as follows:
91.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
92s = sum of all bytes;
93r = s % 2^16 + (s % 2^32) / 2^16;
94cksum = (r % 2^16) + r / 2^16;
95.Ed
96.Pp
97Algorithm 3 is what is commonly called the
98.Ql 32bit CRC
99algorithm.
100This is a 32-bit checksum.
101.Pp
102Both algorithm 1 and 2 write to the standard output the same fields as
103the default algorithm except that the size of the file in bytes is
104replaced with the size of the file in blocks.
105For historic reasons, the block size is 1024 for algorithm 1 and 512
106for algorithm 2.
107Partial blocks are rounded up.
108.El
109.Pp
110The default
111.Tn CRC
112used is based on the polynomial used for
113.Tn CRC
114error checking
115in the networking standard
116.St -iso8802-3 .
117The
118.Tn CRC
119checksum encoding is defined by the generating polynomial:
120.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
121G(x) = x^32 + x^26 + x^23 + x^22 + x^16 + x^12 +
122     x^11 + x^10 + x^8 + x^7 + x^5 + x^4 + x^2 + x + 1
123.Ed
124.Pp
125Mathematically, the
126.Tn CRC
127value corresponding to a given file is defined by
128the following procedure:
129.Bd -ragged -offset indent
130The
131.Ar n
132bits to be evaluated are considered to be the coefficients of a mod 2
133polynomial M(x) of degree
134.Ar n Ns \-1 .
135These
136.Ar n
137bits are the bits from the file, with the most significant bit being the most
138significant bit of the first octet of the file and the last bit being the least
139significant bit of the last octet, padded with zero bits (if necessary) to
140achieve an integral number of octets, followed by one or more octets
141representing the length of the file as a binary value, least significant octet
142first.
143The smallest number of octets capable of representing this integer are used.
144.Pp
145M(x) is multiplied by x^32 (i.e., shifted left 32 bits) and divided by
146G(x) using mod 2 division, producing a remainder R(x) of degree <= 31.
147.Pp
148The coefficients of R(x) are considered to be a 32-bit sequence.
149.Pp
150The bit sequence is complemented and the result is the CRC.
151.Ed
152.Sh EXIT STATUS
153.Ex -std cksum sum
154.Sh SEE ALSO
155.Xr md5 1
156.Pp
157The default calculation is identical to that given in pseudo-code
158in the following
159.Tn ACM
160article.
161.Rs
162.%T "Computation of Cyclic Redundancy Checks Via Table Lookup"
163.%A Dilip V. Sarwate
164.%J "Communications of the" Tn ACM
165.%D "August 1988"
166.Re
167.Sh STANDARDS
168The
169.Nm
170utility is expected to conform to
171.St -p1003.2-92 .
172.Sh HISTORY
173The
174.Nm
175utility appeared in
176.Bx 4.4 .
177