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 ...

An MD5 sum is a string of letters and numbers that acts like a fingerprint for a file. If two files have the same MD5 sum, the files are exactly alike - which is why MD5 "fingerprints" can verify ...

Mostly we’re lazy. We go to a software publisher’s web site and download files and just assume that what’s in the file is what the publisher claims it to be. The problem is that these days web sites ...