[luau] md5sum?

Jim McQueeney jajom at lava.net
Tue Jul 8 10:19:01 PDT 2003


Charles Lockhart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?  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?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Charles
> 

It's very often used for that exact purpose. Most cryptographic software
is provided with a 'hash' type signature to ensure it's integrity
(including PGP and GnuPG).


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