When you download application installers and other files from the Internet, you may see a verification checksum associated with it. Here is how to use that number. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

A checksum is a string of characters which uniquely identifies afile, a digital fingerprint. Change even a few bytes of a file–forexample, by infecting it with a virus or replacing an old versionwith ...

In the past, we’ve talked about several free tools designed for calculating hashes and generating Checksum files. Most lack many features, and some have an ancient-looking user interface, which is ...

In my recent post about the handling of the security incident and compromised ISO image at Linux Mint, I said at the end that users should always verify the checksum of a downloaded image before ...

Decades ago, I would have used fc to check a single file copy. Now I have 3TB on a linux server made up primarily of 10GB DV video files plus thousands of JPG's in nested folders. My backup will be ...

I've been using MD5Summer since Windows 98. It runs, but doesn't have any hashes besides MD5 & SHA1. Both are obviously long in the tooth by now. Does anyone have a simple Windows client for ...