RE: iSCSI: reference for CRC32C?

[Michael Smith <msmith@corp.iready.com>]

Title: RE: iSCSI: reference for CRC32C?

I think this reference below was in one of Julian's earlier drafts. I happen to have ASCII and EndNote citations from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org, but I'm not saying this is the normative reference to CRC-C.

Optimization of cyclic redundancy-check codes with 24 and 32 parity bits
Castagnoli, G.; Brauer, S.; Herrmann, M.
Communications, IEEE Transactions on , Vol.41, Iss.6, 1993
Pages: 883- 892
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel1/26/5993/00231911.pdf?isNumber=5993&prod=JNL&arnumber=00231911 (you need an IEEE subscription that goes back that far)

TY  - JOUR

TI  - Optimization of cyclic redundancy-check codes with 24 and 32 parity bits

SP  - 883

EP  - 892

AU  - Castagnoli, G.

AU  - Brauer, S.

AU  - Herrmann, M.

PB  - Theoretical or Mathematical

KW  - optimisation

KW  - cyclic redundancy-check codes

KW  - minimum distance

KW  - shortened Hamming codes

KW  - weight distribution

KW  - shortened cyclic codes

KW  - high-speed special-purpose processor

KW  - CRC

KW  - block lengths

KW  - IEEE-802

KW  - cyclic codes

KW  - error correction codes

KW  - error detection codes

KW  - Hamming codes

KW  - optimisation

PY  - 1993

VL  - 41

IS  - 6

JO  - Communications, IEEE Transactions on

JA  - Communications, IEEE Transactions on

ER  -

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Stone [mailto:jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:51 PM
To: pat_thaler@agilent.com
Cc: marjorie_krueger@hp.com; ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: iSCSI: reference for CRC32C?

In message <1BEBA5E8600DD4119A50009027AF54A00D373802@axcs04.cos.agilent.com>pat_thaler@agilent.com writes
>Margorie,
>
>The text in 11.1 suffices to fully define the algorithm.

Agreed, It does specify the algorithm. But IMHO the spec should still
cite the original source --- Castagnoli et al. --- because that is the
original source.  And because that's where to start looking, for anyone
who cares about the ins and outs of the specific choice of algorithm.

The citation i have  handy is:
@Article{castagnoli-crc,
  author =       { Guy Castagnoli and Stefan Braeuer and Martin Herrman},
  title =        {{Optimization of Cyclic Redundancy-Check Codes with 24
                  and 32 Parity Bits}},
  journal =      IEEE Transactions on Communication,
  year =         {1993},
  volume =       {41},
  number =       {6},
  pages =        {},
  month =        {June},
}

(I have a hardcopy, with page numbers, if I can find it.)