On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:28:37AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote: > Am I right in thinking that you could use the md5sum checksum > output generated by running md5sum on any file to verify the > contents of that file, at least in some minimal way?
Yes. > If someone sent me a file, and I wanted to check to see if it > had been corrupted enroute, could both I and the sender run > md5sum on that file and confirm some level of accuracy based on > the md5sum output? Provided you have a trusted means of comparing the two sums. GPG is a good application for this. -Vince