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by terrelln 2325 days ago
Zstd has a 32-bit checksum over the uncompressed data, which is enabled by default on the CLI.
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(I know you know this, as one of the principals; this is for other readers.)

And importantly, that 32-bit checksum is a pretty good checksum; a truncated XXH64(): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8478#section-3 That's about as high-quality as you can expect from 32 bits. It's not, say, Fletcher-32.