Technical Papers

This page contains links to miscellaneous papers that I have written. The papers are based on work I have done from time to time,mainly course work, work for paying clients or free advice that I've given.

• Cyclic Redundancy Checks.
  An explanation of how CRCs are used to detect messages corrupted during transmission.
• IP Addresses.
  A description of how IP addresses are composed.
• Message Digests.
  An introduction to the aims and uses of message digest functions.
• Modulo 2 Arithmetic.
  A description of how to add, subtract and divide in modulo 2.
• SNMP packet decode.
  An example decode of an SNMP packet.
• Sockets.
  A reminder of how and when to use the socket system calls.
• Web Services.
  An introduction to the web services protocols.

If you find anything useful here that is useful then please let me know.