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). -- *Jim McQueeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *** ****** PGP ** RSA: 0x45A3FB5D ***** ****** Keys * DH.: 0xA82248FD *****
