I'm trying to figure out how to calculate the Internet Checksum in Java and its causing me no end of pain. (I'm horrible at bit manipulation.) I found a version in C# Calculate an Internet (aka IP, aka RFC791) checksum in C#. However my attempt at converting it to Java does not see to produce the correct results. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? I suspect a data type issue.
public long getValue() {
byte[] buf = { (byte) 0xed, 0x2A, 0x44, 0x10, 0x03, 0x30};
int length = buf.length;
int i = 0;
long sum = 0;
long data = 0;
while (length > 1) {
data = 0;
data = (((buf[i]) << 8) | ((buf[i + 1]) & 0xFF));
sum += data;
if ((sum & 0xFFFF0000) > 0) {
sum = sum & 0xFFFF;
sum += 1;
}
i += 2;
length -= 2;
}
if (length > 0) {
sum += (buf[i] << 8);
// sum += buffer[i];
if ((sum & 0xFFFF0000) > 0) {
sum = sum & 0xFFFF;
sum += 1;
}
}
sum = ~sum;
sum = sum & 0xFFFF;
return sum;
}
Edited to apply comments from @Andy, @EJP, @RD et al and adding extra test cases just to be sure.
I've used a combination of @Andys answer (correctly identifying the location of the problem) and updated the code to include the unit tests provided in the linked answer along with a verified message checksum additional test case.
First the implementation
package org.example.checksum;
public class InternetChecksum {
/**
* Calculate the Internet Checksum of a buffer (RFC 1071 - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1071.html)
* Algorithm is
* 1) apply a 16-bit 1's complement sum over all octets (adjacent 8-bit pairs [A,B], final odd length is [A,0])
* 2) apply 1's complement to this final sum
*
* Notes:
* 1's complement is bitwise NOT of positive value.
* Ensure that any carry bits are added back to avoid off-by-one errors
*
*
* @param buf The message
* @return The checksum
*/
public long calculateChecksum(byte[] buf) {
int length = buf.length;
int i = 0;
long sum = 0;
long data;
// Handle all pairs
while (length > 1) {
// Corrected to include @Andy's edits and various comments on Stack Overflow
data = (((buf[i] << 8) & 0xFF00) | ((buf[i + 1]) & 0xFF));
sum += data;
// 1's complement carry bit correction in 16-bits (detecting sign extension)
if ((sum & 0xFFFF0000) > 0) {
sum = sum & 0xFFFF;
sum += 1;
}
i += 2;
length -= 2;
}
// Handle remaining byte in odd length buffers
if (length > 0) {
// Corrected to include @Andy's edits and various comments on Stack Overflow
sum += (buf[i] << 8 & 0xFF00);
// 1's complement carry bit correction in 16-bits (detecting sign extension)
if ((sum & 0xFFFF0000) > 0) {
sum = sum & 0xFFFF;
sum += 1;
}
}
// Final 1's complement value correction to 16-bits
sum = ~sum;
sum = sum & 0xFFFF;
return sum;
}
}
Then the unit test in JUnit4
package org.example.checksum;
import org.junit.Test;
import static junit.framework.Assert.assertEquals;
public class InternetChecksumTest {
@Test
public void simplestValidValue() {
InternetChecksum testObject = new InternetChecksum();
byte[] buf = new byte[1]; // should work for any-length array of zeros
long expected = 0xFFFF;
long actual = testObject.calculateChecksum(buf);
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
@Test
public void validSingleByteExtreme() {
InternetChecksum testObject = new InternetChecksum();
byte[] buf = new byte[]{(byte) 0xFF};
long expected = 0xFF;
long actual = testObject.calculateChecksum(buf);
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
@Test
public void validMultiByteExtrema() {
InternetChecksum testObject = new InternetChecksum();
byte[] buf = new byte[]{0x00, (byte) 0xFF};
long expected = 0xFF00;
long actual = testObject.calculateChecksum(buf);
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
@Test
public void validExampleMessage() {
InternetChecksum testObject = new InternetChecksum();
// Berkley example http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kfall/EE122/lec06/tsld023.htm
// e3 4f 23 96 44 27 99 f3
byte[] buf = {(byte) 0xe3, 0x4f, 0x23, (byte) 0x96, 0x44, 0x27, (byte) 0x99, (byte) 0xf3};
long expected = 0x1aff;
long actual = testObject.calculateChecksum(buf);
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
@Test
public void validExampleEvenMessageWithCarryFromRFC1071() {
InternetChecksum testObject = new InternetChecksum();
// RFC1071 example http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1071.txt
// 00 01 f2 03 f4 f5 f6 f7
byte[] buf = {(byte) 0x00, 0x01, (byte) 0xf2, (byte) 0x03, (byte) 0xf4, (byte) 0xf5, (byte) 0xf6, (byte) 0xf7};
long expected = 0x220d;
long actual = testObject.calculateChecksum(buf);
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
}