The original dissertation is in German:
<a href="http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2004/0516/pdf/dhmd.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2004/0516/pdf/dhmd.pdf</a><p>Translations, anyone?<p>Wikibooks has code examples:
<a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithm_Implementation/Checksums/Damm_Algorithm" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithm_Implementation/Checks...</a>
Interesting. The Wikipedia article says:<p>> Despite its desirable properties in typical contexts where similar algorithms are used, the Damm algorithm is largely unknown and scarcely used in practice.<p>To what degree is this true?