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If you've just downloaded a file from the Internet, you might want to verify that the file you downloaded hasn't been tampered with. After all, who knows what other nefarious tricks a hacker might ...

Back in June I reported on how Google's Checksum algorithm was backwards engineered. Since then, dozens of PageRank tools became available. There has been a few backlink updates at Google since the ...

What is the "Flexible Checksums" feature? S3 has previously supported MD5 checksum validation of data. Now, it supports more checksum algorithms like CRC32, CRC32C, SHA-1, and SHA-256. This validation ...

Maven Resolver uses checksums to verify the integrity of downloaded artifacts and metadata. Checksums are usually laid out in repositories next to the file in question, with file extension telling the ...

Checksum algorithms are used in biological databases for integrity check and identification purposes. CRC64 is the only checksum algorithm already included in Biopython. This work proposes two new ...

Often, files that are distributed over the Internet are provided with a checksum number for security and file validity. While they are not needed, some people may wish to verify their downloads with ...

We are often struck by how often we spend time trying to optimize something when we would be better off just picking a better algorithm. There is the old story about the mathematician Gauss who, when ...