Reed-Solomon error-correction as a software patch mechanism.
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM (United States). New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program, NM (United States), Kevin Pendley, USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration · 2013
This report explores how error-correction data generated by a Reed-Solomon code may be used as a mechanism to apply changes to an existing installed codebase. Using the Reed-Solomon code to generate error-correction data for a changed or updated codebase will allow the error-correction data to be applied to an existing codebase to both validate and introduce changes or updates from some upstream source to the existing installed codebase.