However, if you want to take the pain of comparing such a big key, simply copy the MD5 checksum for putty.exe from the authors website and create a new file as follows: When you check the key against the original from the website, you’ll find the keys do match.
I now compute the MD5 key for the downloaded file.ĩbb6826905965c13be1c84cc0ff83f42 putty.exe This file is downloaded to the /root folder. Let’s take the instance where we download a file from a website on the internet. Another instance, would be a file copy where the same verification applies. For instance, most if not all of the website from where you download files especially ISO files of operating systems for instance, they offer the MD5 Checksum files to cross verfiy that the download is not being tampered with or if there is a corrupted download. Md5sum is a builtin utility in openSUSE to verify if a file is reproduced exactly the same as the original.
