The Fifth Circuit has handed down a fascinating computer search case in United States v. Reddick. Here's the question: If a private company runs a hash of a file and compares the hash to those of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hi all, what is the easiest way to verify a cd is the exact copy of another Cd down to each file?<BR><BR>For single files I use a neat program called Hashtab shell ...

I am trying to find duplicate audio files in a folder structure that contains a little over 20,000 files. Some dupes will have identical names, others will not. I know that roughly 80%-90% of the ...

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 ...