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 ...

Currently, the File Verification Tool supports only MD5 and SHA-256 checksum algorithms. While these are commonly used, there are other checksum algorithms, such as SHA-1, SHA-512, and CRC32, which ...

Every communication protocol should have a mechanism to determine whether the received data is valid. I once encountered a team that didn’t have such a mechanism. Their device operated in a ...

I have a cron job running that records the temperature and heats overnight. I am consistently getting exceptions thrown for a period because the checksum doesn't match. I took the output from the ...

The first step is to download the relevant checksum file from the download source. The checksum file will have the file extension .md5, .sha1 or .sha256, depending on the hashing algorithm used. 2.

With the latest version of Windows 11 officially out, IT admins have a variety of group policy options at their disposal. Here's a look at what they do. Microsoft is being a bit cagey about its plans ...

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 ...

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Abstract: Algorithm-based fault tolerance (ABFT) has been proposed to complete a program on an unreliable computer that would generate bit flips. A famous ABFT technique is to insert checksums into a ...