MD5 Checksum

This is a 32-character alphanumeric string (e.g. 9F6E6800CFAE7749EB6C486619254B9C) that can be computed for each file with native command line tools md5 (Mac OS X) or md5sum (Linux).

For Windows users, there are several ways.

  1. Using command line program for Windows

    • Press the Windows icon + R, the following interface appears, enter cmd to open the program.

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    • Enter the following command to calculate the MD5 value:

      CertUtil -hashfile Path\filename MD5

    For example,

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  2. Using Windows PowerShell

    Open Windows PowerShell, enter the following command to calculate the MD5 value:

    Get-FileHash Path\filename -Algorithm MD5| Format-List

    For example,

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  3. Using the third party tools, e.g. Fsum Frontend.