Topic summary
CRC-32
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Computation of cyclic redundancy checks.
CRC-32 example
One of the most commonly encountered CRC polynomials is known as CRC-32, used by (among others) Ethernet, FDDI, ZIP and other archive formats, and PNGimage format. Its polynomial can be written msbit-first as 0x04C11DB7, or lsbit-first as 0xEDB88320.