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The checksum is a number that has been calculated as a function of some message. The literal interpretation of the “Check-Sum” word indicates that the function should make simply adding up the bytes in the message. Probably so was in the first checksum algorithms. Today, however, more sophisticated algorithms is used, but term “checksum” is still used.
