Developers often post checksums or hashes alongside the download links for their projects to facilitate this kind of verification. Broadly, a checksum is the result of a mathematical calculation run ...

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 ...

Security pros often ask about the weaknesses of the Message-Digest version 5 algorithm (MD5) and whether it should still be used. MD5 is a cryptographic one-way hash function that produces a value ...

In my day-to-day activities, I often need to verify the MD5 checksum of a file. Typically, I’m checking the checksum after downloading something from the Internet. Thus I want to verify that the ...

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 ...

Every communication protocol should have a mechanism to determine whether the received data is valid. I once encountered a team that didn’t have such a mechanism. Their device operated in a ...