MD5 Checksum

While the MD5 algorithm is no longer used for password hashing due to security vulnerabilities, it can still help software publishers provide their users with a method of ensuring downloaded files have not been corrupted.

MD5 Checksum, as its name suggests, is an open-source application that enables you to calculate MD5 hashes for multiple files. What’s more, it can generate a GitHub table that can be published on the product’s page.

When it comes down to it, this is a very simple program, but it has the great advantage of being fully portable, so you can place it on a flash drive and use it on multiple PCs without installing anything beforehand.

Of course, there also won’t be anything left behind on the host computer once you have generated your checksums and deleted the application.

The program works with simple drag and drop, as you only have to move the files you wish to analyze to the main window. The hashes are generated pretty much instantly, and you can copy them to the clipboard manually.

However, MD5 Checksum comes with an interesting feature for GitHub users – it enables you to generate a table that can be copied to the clipboard and published on your product’s page as it is.

If you post MD5 hashes when uploading your applications, this utility can come in very handy, as these checksums enable users to check whether or not the files have been corrupted while downloading.

MD5 Checksum keeps things simple, as you can load files and process them with drag and drop actions. Moreover, the program can generate a GitHub-friendly table that you can copy and publish on your product page in just a few seconds, thus saving valuable time.