Thursday, December 3, 2015

MD5SUM

MD5SUM

According to Wikipedia, md5sum is used to verify that the file is not tampered and it has not changed as a result of file transfer, a disk error or non malicious meddling.

Simply put, if the md5sum matches that of the original file/source then you are certain that the file is indeed a copy the original file and will certainly work.

I got my MD5 & SHA utility on this website and used it on my Windows OS. I downloaded the Debian-live-8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso from their website using torrent. After the downloading the file, I performed the following:

Get the md5sum of Debian Live from Debian's website:


Run Md5sum & Sha Checksum, click on FILE button and choose the iso image:



The md5sum matched! Ooorah!

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