Checksums

Fun Class Activities:

  1. What is the parity bit of each of:
    1. 01010111
    2. 01001000 01101001
    3. 01001100 01001111 01001100
  2. What is the ASCII-byte checksum of each of the messages:
    1. Hi
    2. LOL
    [Hint: Find the decimal ASCII value of each of the letters in the data, and sum the values up.]
  3. What is the ASCII-byte checksum of each of the messages:
    1. 2KB
    2. 6GB
    What are their SHA-256 digests?