Subsections

- See Also
- Exit Status
- Copying
- Acknowledgements

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Download md5.ziphttp://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/md5.zip (Zipped archive)

The program is provided as md5.ziphttp://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/md5.zip, a Zippedhttp://www.pkware.com/ archive containing an ready-to-run Win32 command-line executable program, `md5.exe` (compiled using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0), and in source code form along with a `Makefile` to build the program under Unix.

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See Also

sum(1)

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Exit Status

md5 returns status 0 if processing was completed without errors, 1 if the -c option was specified and the given signature does not match that of the input, and 2 if processing could not be performed at all due, for example, to a nonexistent input file.

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Copying

> This software is in the public domain. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, without any conditions or restrictions. This software is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty.

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Acknowledgements

The MD5 algorithm was developed by Ron Rivest. The public domain C language implementation used in this program was written by Colin Plumb in 1993. by John Walkerhttp://www.fourmilab.ch/ January 6th, MIM