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Yeah, TCP's checksum is indeed weak and TLS is indeed a good answer.

However, I think delusional is a bit of a strong word to use here. "Performance of Checksums and CRCs over Real Data" has a bunch of interesting data about the number oand types of common errors detected by simple checkums and CRC: http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/1995/conf/partridge.pdf



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