Build md5deep to calculate checksums

Sep 06, '05 08:17:00AM

Contributed by: bluehz

Tonight I discovered this command line utility for computing and verifying various checksums. The documentation indicates it is similar to md5sum (which does not come standard in Mac OS X, but can be installed via GNU Coreutils or Fink), with the added benefits of:

It also offers the user the ability to do all of the above using fiv different checksum models - md5, sha1, sha256, tiger, and whirlpool. Rather than go into what this can do for the user and what it is used for, I will leave that to the end user. Those familiar with checksum functions will find this a great utility.

After downloading, the utility is easily compiled and installed using:
$ make mac
$ make install
More information and the source code is available here: http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/

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