In the past, we’ve talked about several free tools designed for calculating hashes and generating Checksum files. Most lack many features, and some have an ancient-looking user interface, which is ...

The last two digits are the check-digits. This is likely to be some kind of really old method from the 1980s or an in-house scheme cooked up around that time. It was generated on an IBM 3270 but I ...

Developers often post checksums or hashes alongside the download links for their projects to facilitate this kind of verification. Broadly, a checksum is the result of a mathematical calculation run ...