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Hashbrown – Simple Tool to Verify Your Downloads By Checking File Hash

By Roy Schestowitz
Created 14/10/2021 - 7:04pm
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 14th of October 2021 07:04:13 PM Filed under
Software

To verify downloaded packages, we do hash checks. And Hashbrown is a simple graphical tool to generate or verify file hash in Linux Desktop.

Software developers often provide cryptographic hashes along with downloads, for users to ensure the file or program matches the source. Usually, they are MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256 hashes.

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Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/156790

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[1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/38
[2] https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/10/hashbrown-verify-downloads-checking-hash/