November 24, 1997 WinMD5 for Windows 95 WinMD5 is freeware distributed by ING America, Inc. (www.ingamerica.com) WinMD5 will create a message digest file for any file you select. The message digest file is created by default in the same directory as the target file. WinMD5 will verify any message digest file and its corresponding target file. The message digest algorithm used is MD5, invented by Ron Rivest. The message digest code used was written by Colin Plumb in 1993 with no copyright claimed. It has been tested against the RSA Data Security, Inc., reference implementation, but does not use that implementation. The MD5SUM main program was written by Branko Lankester in 1993, and modified slightly by Colin Plumb. The getopt.c source code is public domain code from AT&T. 1 Requirement OS: Windows95 2 Installation (1) Run "MD5SETUP.EXE". 3 Usage 3.1 How to create digest (1) Select a file you would like to create digest for in Explorer. (2) Right click on the file, then you can see shortcut menu. (3) Select "Create Digest" from shortcut menu. (4) In succeed to create digest, dialog box will appear. This dialog box shows file name(you selected) and digest strings(hash data). If you save this digest to a file, press "Save" button. Or not, press "Close". (5) If you select "Save", common open dialog box will appear. Enter file name for the digest file. 3.2 How to check the digest 3.2.1 Check from Digest file (1) Select a digest file in Explorer. (2) Right click on the file, select "Check Digest" from shortcut menu. (3) You can see result. If digest of original file is as same as one in digest file, you will get 'OK'. Otherwise, you will get 'Failed'. (4) The text in the digest file used MUST be the same format as in the file "MD5Setup.md5": d0fff3109d3949f948bfaedc9c9d5ce6 *MD5Setup.EXE 3.2.2 Check from Original file (1) Select a file you would like to check digest. (2) Right click on the file, select "Check Digest" from shortcut menu. (3) It shows open dialog, then you select a digest file including digest of target file(you selected). (4) You get the result of checking. 4 Uninstall (1) Open control panel. (2) Open "Add/Remove Application" icon. (3) Select "WinMD5" from list. (4) Press "Add/Remove" button, then all of WinMD5 programs will be deleted from your disk. Digest files you already created will not be removed. But you can not use these digest files with other software directly, because the digest file format is unique for WinMD5.