md5sum is a program that calculates the MD5 message digest for one or more files

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How to generate 4 WEP keys with linux commands?

I have a sagem router. this router is able to generate 4 WEP keys from a given passphrase. Example: Passphrase: "hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha" key1: ...
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md5 String and File different

Why do I become a different hash when I try: md5 <<< "Hello" md5 -s "Hello" Is it because of a possible line break in the first example?
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Compare two cdroms

I would like to verified if two CD-ROMs (UDF) identical or not. One cdrom will be read at Windows and the other CD-ROM at Linux, where the CD-ROMs can be with different burning programs. This means ...
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md5sum change after mount?

I have a ext3 filesystem on a .img file. After mounting and unmounting it, I noticed that the md5sum is changed, even if no file inside was changed! md5sum myfilesystem.img XXXX myfilesystem.img ...
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is it possible to create a file given an md5 hash

I know this is a strange question, and I know that md5sum is nearly impossible to break... but I'm just wondering if someone here knows if it is possible to recreate a file given it's md5sum hash? I ...
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Trailing space when generating md5

I apologize if this has already been answered, or if the answer is simpler than I realize, but I can't seem to figure out the following: When I try to generate an md5 from a string, either with echo ...
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Sanity checking MD5 sums

Do MD5 checksums contain a checkbit? I have to copy some MD5 checksums by hand (there's no other way) and was wondering whether there is any code out there that can validate a checksum as being valid ...
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How to create a md5-file for every folder in a drive recursivley?

I'm searching for a script which creates a md5 chechsum file for every single folder inside drive recursivley? I do have a copy of md5deep on my machine but I'm not that good in scripting bash.
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How do I get the MD5 sum of a directory's contents as one sum?

The md5sum program does not provide checksums for directories. I want to get a single MD5 checksum for the entire contents of a directory, including files in sub-directories. That is, one combined ...
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How do I easily update list of md5sums?

Sometimes I use an unreliable medium (flash) to store a good deal of data. To at least recognise bit flips I store a file with the md5sums alongside. This file is usually created by a variation of ...
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How do I redirect command output to a file?

I have a command that I run in a folder that outputs MD5 hashes and filenames on the terminal: ls |sort -nr | xargs md5sum I need this output in a text file that I can download and compare to ...
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Why does the gzip version of files produce a different md5 checksum

I have four files that I created using an svndump test.svn test2.svn test.svn.gz test2.svn.gz now when i run this md5sum test2.svn test.svn test.svn.gz test2.svn.gz Here is the output ...