Bug#390292: ITP: vdmfec -- Block ECC using a Forward Error Correction

["Andreas Tille" <tillea@gmail.com>]

Subject: ITP: vdmfec -- Block ECC using a Forward Error Correction
Package: wnpp
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : vdmfec
 Version         : 1.0
 Upstream Author : Tom Holroyd <tomh@po.crl.go.jp>
* URL             : http://members.tripod.com/professor_tom/archives/index.html
* License         : GPL
 Programming Lang: C
 Description     : Block ECC using a Forward Error Correction

VDMFEC implements Block ECC using a Forward Error Correction
(FEC) code based on Vandermonde (VDM) matrices in GF(2^8) due
to Luigi Rizzo. Given the FEC parameters K and N, with N
greater than K, N blocks are written for every K input blocks
in such a way that any K blocks are sufficient to reconstruct
the data. That is, up to N - K blocks out of every group of N
blocks may be lost without loss of data. Its primary
application is intended to be in recovering data from
unreliable media such as diskettes.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
 APT prefers testing
 APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE@euro)