Can anyone tell me where to get started to get an md5 or sha1 checksum of a given file.
I've searced around and all I can find are utilities, I also looked at wincrypt but It seems to me that it just does passwords and strings and suchlike.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Either Crypto++ http://www.cryptopp.com/ or OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/ libraries should have functions to compute both md5 and sha-1 hashes.
Crikey!
I dowloaded from cryptopp and loaded into visual studio, and my head is just spinning looking at it all.
Its going to take me some time to just extract what I need to learn for just md5 or sha1.
I guess I just thought It would be a simple function which took a filepath and outputted a hash. As usual I was wrong, I have some serious reading to do, I'll be back in a few days I reckon.
Thank you very much for the links, they are very usefull to me and much appreciated.
Suze.
>> .. my head is just spinning
If the libraries seem daunting, you might check out a basic MSDN CryptoAPI example Creating an MD5 Hash from File Content.
Thats the ticket, superb.
Thanks.
I have searched for some time for an example like that, and was not aware of wincrypt.
Although it works fine, I still have some reading up on it, before I can use it.
Again, Cheers guys.
Solved.
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