WinMD5 hash software
WinMD5 is my first choice to calculate hash string, because it’s a green freeware and very little size.
The new version is V2.0.7, released in March 2006.
I use version V1.0 for a long time, it’s copied into my several PCs.
The author’s web site: http://www.blisstonia.com/software/WinMD5/
The following is introduction from author’s webpage.
WinMD5 a free Windows (98, XP, 2000) utility for computing the MD5 hashes (“fingerprints”) of files. These fingerprints can be used to ensure that your file is uncorrupted.
About WinMD5
If you’ve downloaded a large file over the internet, perhaps the latest RedHat CDs, you may have wondered if your download completed correctly. Are the copies on my machine exactly the same as the ones on the server?
MD5 is the name of a “hashing” algorithm which can answer this question. MD5 hashes are fingerprints of files. You can compare the fingerprints of two files to see if the files themselves are the same.
In order to be useful, you have to know what the correct fingerprint for a file is… otherwise, you cannot tell if your file is right or not. If you’re downloading a large file, look for a file named “MD5SUM”, or something similar. This file contains the correct fingerprints. Dragging an MD5SUM file onto WinMD5 causes the fingerprints to be compared automatically.
This program allows you to compute the MD5 hashes of files. It also makes it very easy to compare the fingerprints against the correct fingerprints stored in an MD5SUM file. RedHat, for example, provides MD5SUM files for all of its large downloadable
