![]() ![]() You can generate and verify SHA256 hash sums using tools such as GNU rhash. We highly recommend using the SHA256 algorithm for verifying data integrity. Therefore, if you need to be absolutely certain that a file is identical to the original, use a more powerful method. It's been proven that an attacker could carefully make changes to a file that would produce an identical cksum checksum. It's not meant to protect against malicious alteration of a file. Simple checksums, such as those produced by the cksum tool, are useful only for detecting accidental data corruption. and it changes dramatically even if only one character is different: This is my original file? cksum myfile.txt 3832066352 26 myfile.txt ![]() The checksum is different even if the number of bytes is same as the original: This is a corrupted file. The checksum is very different, and we can also see that there are ten more bytes of data. and run cksum again, you see the following: cksum myfile.txt 632554699 36 myfile.txt If you change the file's contents to this: This is no longer my original file. Here, 4164605383 is the checksum, and 26 is the amount of data, in bytes. and this is the output: 4164605383 26 myfile.txt You can calculate the checksum using cksum: cksum myfile.txt Let's say you have a file, myfile.txt, containing the following text: This is my original file. If the checksum value of the file is the same before and after being transferred, it is unlikely that any data corruption has accidentally occurred - from signal noise, for example. The checksum of a file is a simple way to check if its data has become corrupted when being transferred from one place to another.
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