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When downloading files, particularly installation files from websites, it is a good idea to verify that the download is valid. A website will often display a hash value for each file so that you can make sure the download completed correctly. In this article, we will be discussing the md5sum tool that you can use to validate the download.
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By: FossEurope
Good tutorial, but md5 is largely outdated. Unless you're validating hundreds of files at once or extremely large ones you should rather use sha256 as it's much more reliable. Sha256 can be used the exact same way so this article is still a great resource :)