Is it possible to do CRC-32 calculation in splits?

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I use this trivial function to calculate the CRC checksum of a given file:

long i, j = 0;
int k = 0;
uint crc = 0xFFFFFFFF;
FileInfo file_info = new FileInfo(file);
byte[] file_buffer = new byte[32768];

FileStream file_stream = new FileStream(@file, FileMode.Open);
while ((i = file_stream.Read(file_buffer, 0, file_buffer.Count())) > 0)
{
    for (j = 0; j < i; j++)
    {
        uint before = crc;
        k = (int)((crc ^ file_buffer[j]) & 0x000000FFL);
        uint after = (uint)((crc >> 8) & 0x00FFFFFFL) ^ crc32_table[k];
        crc = after;
        uint test = (uint)((crc << 8) & 0x00FFFFFFL) ^ crc32_table[k];
        MessageBox.Show((~crc).ToString("X"));
    }
}
file_stream.Close();
return ~crc;

My question is this: Say I have a large file, of say 100MB. Is there any link between a CRC-32 calculation of the first 50MB and the last 50MB and the CRC-32 calculation of the 100MB file?

The reason I'm asking, is I have some very large files (~10GB give or take) which take some time to generate, but while they're being generated, most parts remain static, however, parts in the middle (known point) and right at the start (header, also known part/length). Calculating a CRC-32 checksum of a 10GB file takes quite some time, so I was wondering if there was any way to do it in chunks?

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4 Answers

I know this is an old question but this is what I use for "chunking" CRC calculations in case this helps anyone:

public static class Crc32Checksum
{
    private static readonly uint[] Table = GenerateTable();

    /// <summary>
    /// Calculates a CRC32 value for the data given.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="data">Data contents</param>
    /// <param name="offset">Byte offset to start reading</param>
    /// <param name="count">Number of bytes to read</param>
    /// <returns>The computed CRC32 value.</returns>
    public static int Calculate(byte[] data, int offset, int count) 
        => Calculate(0, data, offset, count);

    /// <summary>
    /// Calculates a new CRC32 value given additional data for the current CRC value.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="currentCrc">The current CRC value to start with</param>
    /// <param name="data">Additional data contents</param>
    /// <param name="offset">Byte offset to start reading</param>
    /// <param name="count">Number of bytes to read</param>
    /// <returns>The computed CRC32 value.</returns>
    public static int Calculate(int currentCrc, byte[] data, int offset, int count)
    {
        unchecked
        {
            uint crc = ~(uint)currentCrc;

            for (int i = offset, end = offset + count; i < end; i++)
                crc = (crc >> 8) ^ Table[(crc ^ data[i]) & 0xFF];

            return (int)~crc;
        }
    }

    private static uint[] GenerateTable()
    {
        unchecked
        {
            var table = new uint[256];

            const uint poly = 0xEDB88320;

            for (uint i = 0; i < table.Length; i++)
            {
                uint crc = i;

                for (int j = 8; j > 0; j--)
                {
                    if ((crc & 1) == 1)
                        crc = (crc >> 1) ^ poly;
                    else
                        crc >>= 1;
                }

                table[i] = crc;
            }

            return table;
        }
    }
}
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