Verify a Checksum in Windows
A lot of vendors that provide software online provide a checksum for the file that helps you verify that what you downloaded hasn't been altered in some way. Sometimes that's an MD5 or SHA256.
A lot of vendors that provide software online provide a checksum for the file that helps you verify that what you downloaded hasn't been altered in some way. Sometimes that's an MD5 or SHA256.
I recently discovered a tool that's part of windows that helps you generate the checksum of a given file - certutil.
Usage is pretty simple, just open a terminal and enter the following:
certutil -hashfile "Path/To/File.Ext" MD5You can replace MD5 in the line above with any of the following:
- MD2
- MD4
- MD4
- SHA1
- SHA256
- SHA384
- SHA512
