Dear Paul A. Bristow, I'm 3rd year Informatics student at ETI, Gdańsk University of Technology and I'm highly interested in participating in GSoC 2011. I choose boost and "Checks & Hashes" project idea, because it meets with my coding abilities and "always try to make something useful" general rule. I have 7 years experience in programming and algorithms. I would rate my knowledge: c++ 4/5, svn 3-3.5/5. Some questions about the project. As CRC class seems to be only separate hashcodes library in boost, should the rest of algorithms libraries at least try to inherit crc methods naming and parameters convention or, if decision to use completely different convention, the crc library should be adapted or left as it is now? Actual naming idea is that function name should start with algorithm type - if it produces checksum or hash, than algorithm name (sha, crc, ...) and then variant (like in sha: sha1, sha256,...), so sha1 function name will look like h_sha_1, or for "Simple modulo 256 etc check values and digits." it will be c_simple_256. How many algorithms you expect to be found/implemented, documented, tested and got to work more or less? This would help me making work plan. Also i will have exams between 8-21 June, so my commitment to the project at that time will be low. I hope that this won't be a problem. Regards, Mateusz Nowak.