On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 2:01 AM Ross Jacobs <rossbjac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My vote is for table lookup along a one-byte boundary as all of the existing 
> CRC checkers in /wsutil currently use one. Notice how in our CRC16 and CRC32 
> implementations, we bitshift by 8 and 24 respectively. It should be possible 
> to compute any CRC along a one-byte boundary. This article goes over how to 
> implement non-CRC8 algorithms to do just that with a table lookup.
>
> PyCRC was used to generate Wireshark's CRC6, CRC7, and CRC11 algorithms. You 
> may want to take a look at it and see if it can help here. In this case, 
> width=5 and poly=0x05 (assuming CRC5/USB found here).

I understand that the *one-byte boundary* refers to the input data.
And thus it applies only to the second approach I have mentioned (to
compute CRC on the message and messages' CRC5 = 2 bytes).
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