May 31, 2010
by Luis Ventura
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On a previous post I discussed the value of md5deep, now I am going to show you another tool by the name of hashdeep. As expected with hashdeep you can: recurse entire directories, perform matching, audit known hashes. Hashdeep grants … Continue reading
February 28, 2010
by Luis Ventura
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File integrity is no joke and system administrators know the severity of dealing corrupt files. The problem administrators face is that unlike users, administrator have to manage servers with hundreds of thousands of files in each directory that have to … Continue reading
March 4, 2009
by Luis Ventura
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An MD5 hash is commonly used to compare and verify the integrity of a file. To create the MD5 hash we can use the tool MD5SUM which is included in Linux and Unix like operating systems. MD5SUM can calculate, generate, … Continue reading