MD5SUM - amiga port by Peter Simons <simonspeti.GUN.de>


What is MD5SUM?
===============

    MD5SUM is a small utility that allows you to build checksums over
text- or binary files, using the "MD5 Message Digest Algorithm". These
checksums can be stored in a file and can be validated later, using
MD5SUM.

For example, the checksums of the MD5SUM sources look like this:

     107788ec46ef6ab9dbb190215f5b6f1a  source/getopt.c
     ca1ada43f73cff4466adde1e88a8cf60  source/md5.c
     4a6dafa2f6282430e65d4728a1303a53  source/md5sum.c

    So, what is this useful for? Say, you're releasing a software
package including sources to the public and want to make shure, nobody
modifies the program (for example: add backdoors) and redistributes
the modified version. (Do not laugh, this already happened with BBS
packages or common utilities. Once, even a virus was added to a
utility!) You could include the digest-file with a checksum of every
single file in release archive and everybody could easily check the
validity of the files.


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[unknown]                10201   16224  62.9% -lh5- 5536 Sep 18  1993 md5sum/md5sum
[unknown]                 3511    8121  43.2% -lh5- 6bba Sep 18  1993 md5sum/md5sum.doc
[unknown]                 3826    9059  42.2% -lh5- 3d5e Sep 18  1993 md5sum/md5sum.guide
[unknown]                 3741    8520  43.9% -lh5- 7646 Sep 17  1993 md5sum/md5sum.texinfo
[unknown]                 1028    2175  47.3% -lh5- ec96 May 10  1993 md5sum/source/getopt.c
[unknown]                   93     106  87.7% -lh5- 73b1 Sep 14  1993 md5sum/source/getopt.h
[unknown]                 3272   11283  29.0% -lh5- 7dc5 Sep 17  1993 md5sum/source/md5.c
[unknown]                 1105    3341  33.1% -lh5- 50ab May 11  1993 md5sum/source/md5.h
[unknown]                 2073    7420  27.9% -lh5- 5153 Sep 16  1993 md5sum/source/md5sum.c
[unknown]                  347     624  55.6% -lh5- 1f58 Sep 14  1993 md5sum/source/smakefile
[unknown]                 1604    2504  64.1% -lh5- 36b3 Sep 18  1993 md5sum/Readme.first
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 Total        11 files   30801   69377  44.4%            Sep 20  1993