[luau] md5sum?

[Vince Hoang]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:28:37AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> Am I right in thinking that you could use the md5sum checksum
> output generated by running md5sum on any file to verify the
> contents of that file, at least in some minimal way?

Yes.

> If someone sent me a file, and I wanted to check to see if it
> had been corrupted enroute, could both I and the sender run
> md5sum on that file and confirm some level of accuracy based on
> the md5sum output?

Provided you have a trusted means of comparing the two sums.
GPG is a good application for this.

-Vince