Any idea what purpose including an MD5 Sum file within a zip file that you're downloading serves? I understand the algorithmic checking to make sure the file hasn't been modified. But I just ...

I downloaded someone off torrent that is two files, a 2 GB file with no extension and a 8KB file with an MD5 extension of the same name.<BR><BR>I think I had something like this earlier and its a disk ...

It is always important to verify whether the large file you downloaded is the file you expected to download or not. This is because files may change in some way from the original while downloading.

An MD5 sum is a string of letters and numbers that acts like a fingerprint for a file. If two files have the same MD5 sum, the files are exactly alike - which is why MD5 "fingerprints" can verify ...

Starting in April, Oracle will treat JAR files signed with the MD5 hashing algorithm as if they were unsigned, which means modern releases of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will block those JAR ...