cksum is a shell command for generating a checksum for a file or stream of data. The command reports the 32-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC) checksum and byte count for each file specified in the command-line arguments or for standard input if no arguments provided. The CRC value is different from the CRC-32 used with a ZIP file, PNG or zlib.
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cksum is a shell command for generating a checksum for a file or stream of data. The command reports the 32-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC) checksum and byte count for each file specified in the command-line arguments or for standard input if no arguments provided. The CRC value is different from the CRC-32 used with a ZIP file, PNG or zlib.
The command can be used to verify that files transferred (possibly via unreliable means) arrived intact. However, the checksum calculated is not cryptographically secure. While it guards against accidental corruption (it is unlikely that the corrupted data will have the same checksum as the intended data), it is not difficult for an attacker to deliberately corrupt the file in a specific way that its checksum is unchanged. Unix-like systems typically include other commands for cryptographically secure checksums, such as sha256sum.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).