{"id":95,"date":"2013-02-13T13:55:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T20:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/?p=95"},"modified":"2013-05-12T20:07:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T03:07:01","slug":"file-checksums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/file-checksums\/","title":{"rendered":"File Checksums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All files created or tools used in a forensic investigation need to include a checksum for validation against fraud. A checksum is basically the value of a file hash. If one character in the code or file is changed, the hash will produce a different checksum. This helps validate content. A specific application version will have a unique checksum different from all other versions of the software.<\/p>\n<p>A good tool for Windows to use to create checksums is File Checksum Integrity Verifier (http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/841290).\u00a0Tool use is very simple.<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Command<\/strong>: \r\n&lt;File Checksum Integrity Verifier EXECUTABLE&gt; &lt;FILE TO CHECKSUM&gt;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Capture4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96\" alt=\"Capture4\" src=\"http:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Capture4.png\" width=\"413\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Capture4.png 413w, https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Capture4-300x55.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/>\r\n<\/a>A good tool pre-installed in most Linux environments to use to create checksums is md5sum.<\/pre>\n<pre><strong>Command<\/strong>: \r\nmd5sum &lt;FILE TO CHECKSUM&gt;<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All files created or tools used in a forensic investigation need to include a checksum for validation against fraud. A checksum is basically the value of a file hash. If one character in the code or file is changed, the hash will produce a different checksum. This helps validate content. A specific application version will have a unique checksum different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6,12],"tags":[46,13,9,67],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forensics","category-linux","category-windows","tag-checksum","tag-cmd","tag-command","tag-terminl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}