Short: Md5 1.0 message digest generator Author: pogi@goliat.eik.bme.hu Uploader: pogi goliat eik bme hu Type: util/crypt Architecture: m68k-amigaos What is MD5? ------------ MD5 is a small utility that allows you to calculate checksums of text- or binary files, using the "MD5 Message Digest Algorithm". (see below) This version has been optimized for SPEED and is about 20% faster than other implementations. It is also small (9988 bytes). For example, the checksums of the MD5 utility look like this: 95 1a 8a 3b 64 7d 8f da 53 f7 9d fe 12 45 33 ab So, what is this useful for? Say, you're releasing a software package including sources to the public and want to make sure, nobody modifies your program (for example: add backdoors) and redistributes the modified version. You could include the MD5 checksums of every single file in the release archive and everybody could easily check the validity of the files.