sha256

Based on this blog, this is the code which uses SHA 256 to get the hash of an entire directory - dir=<mydir>; find "$dir" -type f -exec sha256sum {} \; | sed "s~$dir~~g" | LC_ALL=C sort -d | sha256sum I want to multi-thread this. AI is too dumb, so don't even try. Actually, ChatGPT did give...

When we download software, we need to verify two things: The integrity of the software we have just downloaded. The authenticity of the package. Checking these two things will ensure that the download went well, and that the software is authentic (and not malware, for example). For the...