Question

When downloading a package from a vendor, you are required by your security protocol to determine that the package that is on the vendor's site is identical to the package you eventually get downloaded, free from any man-in-the-middle replacements, or alterations.

Answer 1

Checksum is used to best describes the method or file that you will be used to determine the authenticity of the package that you downloaded from a vendor.

What is Checksum?

You generate a checksum by running a program that runs a file through an algorithm. MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 are common algorithms for this.

The algorithm employs a cryptographic hash function to generate a fixed-length string (a sequence of numbers and letters) from an input. The input file can be as small as 1 MB or as large as 4 GB, but the checksum will be the same length in either case. Checksums are also known as "hashes".

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