looks like powershell's Get-FileHash can help
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn520872.aspx

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Oberhuber, Martin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
>
>
> One problem I’ve seen with sha256 is that I couldn’t find a Windows
> command-line executable to automatically check the checksums.
>
>
>
> There’s a couple of UI tools, but for automation a plain command-line
> sha256.exe (build from GNU coreutils for example) would be good. And no, I
> wouldn’t want that to be based on Cygwin.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have a pointer where to get such a command-line tool, or
> working instructions how to build myself ?
>
> All I’ve found so far is cross-build instructions here:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527060#c13
>
> These did work for me but perhaps Eclipse should reference an easier way
> getting a tool when we switch to sha256 ?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
> --
>
> *Martin Oberhuber*, SMTS / Product Owner – Development Tools, *Wind River*
>
> direct +43.662.457915.85  fax +43.662.457915.6
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *<[email protected]> on behalf of 'David Williams' <
> [email protected]>
> *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Tuesday 10 May 2016 at 02:37
> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "
> [email protected]" <[email protected]>, Cross issues <
> [email protected]>
> *Subject: *[eclipse-dev] Notice that Eclipse Platform plans to no longer
> provide MD5 and SHA1 checksums for Neon (but still SHA512)
>
>
>
> The topic of this note is about the downloads and checksums obtained
> directly from the the Eclipse Project. It does not involve the checksums
> from the "select a mirror" page -- that is controlled by the Eclipse
> Foundation -- nor any of the packages downloaded from
> http://www.eclipse.org/downloads-- also controlled by the Eclipse
> Foundation.  My intuition is that few "casual users" use our checksums but
> some adopters or committers might use them in automated scripts or builds.
>
> If any of you do get checksums directly from
> .../eclipse/downloads/drops4/<buildid>/checksum/... then this note is for
> you.
>
> We announced in Luna we would "stop producing MD5 and SHA1 checksums"
> after Luna's release (*Bug 423714*
> <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=423714>)... and I am just
> now getting around to it. Since it has been a long time since that
> announcement, and since we are late in this cycle, I am cross-posting to 3
> lists to be sure those that might be impacted will be notified.
>
> We will continue to provide SHA512 checksums and I recently decided to
> also provide SHA256 checksums since SHA256 seems to be popular "in the
> industry".
>
> This RC1 effort is documented in *Bug 454784*
> <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=454784>. If the removal of
> the MD5 and SHA1 checksums would unduly burden anyone, please say so in
> that *Bug 454784* <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=454784> and
> we would be happy to accommodate.
>
> I will soon be updating our wiki on How to verify a download
> <http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/How_to_check_integrity_of_downloads>
> to contain accurate information for Neon, but wanted to get this notice out
> now so if you are negatively impacted you would have time to say so.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
>
>
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