CRC32

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 21, 2005
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NAME

crc32 - compute CRC-32 checksums for the given files

SYNOPSIS

crc32 filename [ filename ... ]

DESCRIPTION

crc32 is a simple utility that calculates the CRC-32 checksum for each of the given files.

Note that the CRC-32 checksum is merely used for error detection in transmission and storage. It is not intended to guard against the malicious modification of files (i.e., it is not a cryptographic hash).

This utility is supplied with the Archive::Zip module for Perl.

AUTHOR

The Archive::Zip module was written by Ned Konz.
This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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