Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 02/14/07 22:08

On 2/14/2007, Gene posted this:
> I think we are all saying the same thing:-)
>
> The point that I was making was that the packets were
> not to be sent out as a contiguous stream of data that
> could be easily reassembled by an enemy, should the
> enemy be successful in getting a copy of one or more
> individual packets. I was of the understanding that the
> packets were encrypted in some way, then further divided
> into one or more packets that contained no more
> than 1/2 of the original encrypted packet data.

[...]

On the contrary, it is *easy* to assemble the packets. They contain
information about where they come from and where they are going, and
furthermore, about where they fit in the sequence (called "sequence
numbers", oddly enough).

Also, as alluded to before, checksums to help detect the presence of
data errors.

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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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