Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

How to use MD5 Hash to check the Integrity of Files?

2010

Suppose you have a file called backup.tar on your server. Before you download, you need to generate MD5 hash for thisfile on your server. To do so use the following command.

For UNIX: md5sum backup.tar When you hit ENTER yo u’ll see something as follows

e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0

This is the MD5 hash for the file backup.tar . After you download this file onto your PC, you can cross check it’s integrity byagain re-generating MD5 hash for the downloaded file. If both the hash matches then it means that the file is perfect.Otherwise it means that the file is corrupt. To generate the MD5 hash for the downloaded file on Windows PC usethe following freeware tool.

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