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35.Dd June 24, 2012
36.Dt CKSUM 1
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm cksum ,
40.Nm md2 ,
41.Nm md4 ,
42.Nm md5 ,
43.Nm rmd160 ,
44.Nm sha1 ,
45.Nm sum
46.Nd display file checksums and block counts
47.Sh SYNOPSIS
48.Nm cksum
49.Op Fl n
50.Op Fl a Ar algorithm Oo Fl ptx Oc Oo Fl s Ar string Oc
51.Op Fl o Ar 1 Ns | Ns Ar 2
52.Op Ar Li \&| Fl c Oo Fl w Oc Oo Ar sumfile Oc
53.Nm sum
54.Op Fl n
55.Op Fl a Ar algorithm Oo Fl ptx Oc Oo Fl s Ar string Oc
56.Op Fl o Ar 1 Ns | Ns Ar 2
57.Op Ar Li \&| Fl c Oo Fl w Oc Oo Ar sumfile Oc
58.Nm md2
59.Op Fl nptx
60.Op Fl s Ar string
61.Op Ar Li \&| Fl c Oo Fl w Oc Oo Ar sumfile Oc
62.Nm md4
63.Op Fl nptx
64.Op Fl s Ar string
65.Op Ar Li \&| Fl c Oo Fl w Oc Oo Ar sumfile Oc
66.Nm md5
67.Op Fl nptx
68.Op Fl s Ar string
69.Op Ar Li \&| Fl c Oo Fl w Oc Oo Ar sumfile Oc
70.Nm rmd160
71.Op Fl nptx
72.Op Fl s Ar string
73.Op Ar Li \&| Fl c Oo Fl w Oc Oo Ar sumfile Oc
74.Nm sha1
75.Op Fl nptx
76.Op Fl s Ar string
77.Op Ar Li \&| Fl c Oo Fl w Oc Oo Ar sumfile Oc
78.Sh DESCRIPTION
79The
80.Nm
81utility writes to the standard output three whitespace separated
82fields for each input file.
83These fields are a checksum
84.Tn CRC ,
85the total number of octets in the file and the file name.
86If no file name is specified, the standard input is used and no file name
87is written.
88.Pp
89The
90.Nm sum
91utility is identical to the
92.Nm
93utility, except that it defaults to using historic algorithm 1, as
94described below.
95It is provided for compatibility only.
96.Pp
97The
98.Nm md2 ,
99.Nm md4 ,
100.Nm md5 ,
101.Nm sha1 ,
102and
103.Nm rmd160
104utilities compute cryptographic hash functions, and write to standard
105output the hexadecimal representation of the hash of their input.
106.Pp
107The options are as follows:
108.Bl -tag -width indent
109.It Fl a Ar algorithm
110When invoked as
111.Nm cksum ,
112use the specified
113.Ar algorithm .
114Valid algorithms are:
115.Bl -column -offset indent ".Sy Algorithm" ".Sy Bits" ".Sy Description"
116.It Sy Algorithm Ta Sy Bits Ta Sy Description
117.It Li CRC Ta 32 Ta Default CRC algorithm
118.It Li MD2 Ta 128 Ta MD2, per Li RFC1319
119.It Li MD4 Ta 128 Ta MD4, per Li RFC1320
120.It Li MD5 Ta 128 Ta MD5, per Li RFC1321
121.It Li RMD160 Ta 160 Ta RIPEMD-160
122.It Li SHA1 Ta 160 Ta SHA-1, per Li FIPS PUB 180-1
123.It Li SHA256 Ta 256 Ta SHA-2
124.It Li SHA384 Ta 384 Ta SHA-2
125.It Li SHA512 Ta 512 Ta SHA-2
126.It Li old1 Ta 16 Ta Algorithm 1, per Fl o Ar 1
127.It Li old2 Ta 16 Ta Algorithm 2, per Fl o Ar 2
128.El
129.It Fl c Op Ar sumfile
130Verify (check) files against a list of checksums.
131The list is read from
132.Ar sumfile ,
133or from stdin if no filename is given.
134E.g. first run
135.Dl Ic md5 *.tgz \*[Gt] MD5
136.Dl Ic sha1 *.tgz \*[Gt] SHA1
137to generate a list of MD5 checksums in
138.Pa MD5 ,
139then use the following command to verify them:
140.Dl Ic cat MD5 SHA1 | cksum -c
141If an error is found during checksum verification, an error
142message is printed, and the program returns an error code of 1.
143.It Fl o
144Use historic algorithms instead of the (superior) default one.
145.Pp
146Algorithm 1 is the algorithm used by historic
147.Bx
148systems as the
149.Xr sum 1
150algorithm and by historic
151.At V
152systems as the
153.Xr sum 1
154algorithm when using the
155.Fl r
156option.
157This is a 16-bit checksum, with a right rotation before each addition;
158overflow is discarded.
159.Pp
160Algorithm 2 is the algorithm used by historic
161.At V
162systems as the
163default
164.Xr sum 1
165algorithm.
166This is a 32-bit checksum, and is defined as follows:
167.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
168s = sum of all bytes;
169r = s % 2^16 + (s % 2^32) / 2^16;
170cksum = (r % 2^16) + r / 2^16;
171.Ed
172.Pp
173Both algorithm 1 and 2 write to the standard output the same fields as
174the default algorithm except that the size of the file in bytes is
175replaced with the size of the file in blocks.
176For historic reasons, the block size is 1024 for algorithm 1 and 512
177for algorithm 2.
178Partial blocks are rounded up.
179.It Fl w
180Print warnings about malformed checksum files when verifying
181checksums with
182.Fl c .
183.El
184.Pp
185The following options apply only when using the one of the message
186digest algorithms:
187.Bl -tag -width indent
188.It Fl n
189Print the hash and the filename in the normal sum output form, with
190the hash at the left and the filename following on the right.
191.It Fl p
192Echo input from standard input to standard output, and append the
193selected message digest.
194.It Fl s Ar string
195Print the hash of the given string
196.Ar string .
197.It Fl t
198Run a built-in message digest time trial.
199.It Fl x
200Run a built-in message digest test script.
201The tests that are run
202are supposed to encompass all the various tests in the suites that
203accompany the algorithms' descriptions with the exception of the
204last test for the SHA-1 algorithm and the RIPEMD-160 algorithm.
205The
206last test for these is one million copies of the lower letter a.
207.El
208.Pp
209The default
210.Tn CRC
211used is based on the polynomial used for
212.Tn CRC
213error checking
214in the networking standard
215.St -iso8802-3 .
216The
217.Tn CRC
218checksum encoding is defined by the generating polynomial:
219.Pp
220.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
221G(x) = x^32 + x^26 + x^23 + x^22 + x^16 + x^12 +
222     x^11 + x^10 + x^8 + x^7 + x^5 + x^4 + x^2 + x + 1
223.Ed
224.Pp
225Mathematically, the
226.Tn CRC
227value corresponding to a given file is defined by
228the following procedure:
229.Bd -filled -offset indent
230The
231.Ar n
232bits to be evaluated are considered to be the coefficients of a mod 2
233polynomial M(x) of degree
234.Ar n Ns \-1 .
235These
236.Ar n
237bits are the bits from the file, with the most significant bit being the most
238significant bit of the first octet of the file and the last bit being the least
239significant bit of the last octet, padded with zero bits (if necessary) to
240achieve an integral number of octets, followed by one or more octets
241representing the length of the file as a binary value, least significant octet
242first.
243The smallest number of octets capable of representing this integer are used.
244.Pp
245M(x) is multiplied by x^32 (i.e., shifted left 32 bits) and divided by
246G(x) using mod 2 division, producing a remainder R(x) of degree \*[Le] 31.
247.Pp
248The coefficients of R(x) are considered to be a 32-bit sequence.
249.Pp
250The bit sequence is complemented and the result is the CRC.
251.Ed
252.Pp
253The
254.Nm
255and
256.Nm sum
257utilities exit 0 on success, and \*[Gt]0 if an error occurs.
258.Sh SEE ALSO
259.Xr openssl 1 ,
260.Xr mtree 8
261.Pp
262The default calculation is identical to that given in pseudo-code
263in the following
264.Tn ACM
265article.
266.Rs
267.%T "Computation of Cyclic Redundancy Checks Via Table Lookup"
268.%A Dilip V. Sarwate
269.%J "Communications of the ACM"
270.%D "August 1988"
271.Re
272.Rs
273.%A R. Rivest
274.%T The MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm
275.%O RFC 1319
276.Re
277.Rs
278.%A R. Rivest
279.%T The MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm
280.%O RFC 1186 and RFC 1320
281.Re
282.Rs
283.%A R. Rivest
284.%T The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
285.%O RFC 1321
286.Re
287.Rs
288.%A U.S. DOC/NIST
289.%T Secure Hash Standard
290.%O FIPS PUB 180-1
291.Re
292.Sh STANDARDS
293The
294.Nm
295utility is expected to conform to
296.St -p1003.1-2004 .
297.Sh HISTORY
298The
299.Nm
300utility appeared in
301.Bx 4.4 .
302.Nm md5
303was added in
304.Nx 1.3 .
305The functionality for
306.Nm md2 ,
307.Nm md4 ,
308.Nm sha1 ,
309and
310.Nm rmd160
311was added in
312.Nx 1.6 .
313Support for the SHA-2 algorithms
314.Po
315.Li SHA256 ,
316.Li SHA384 ,
317and
318.Li SHA512
319.Pc
320was added in
321.Nx 3.0 .
322The functionality to verify checksum stored in a file
323.Pq Fl c
324first appeared in
325.Nx 4.0 .
326.\" .Pp
327.\" The
328.\" .Nm sum
329.\" utility appeared in
330.\" .Bx ?.?
331.\" and
332.\" .At V .
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