Translations:Checksums als middel om de integriteit van bestanden te bewaken/8/en

MD5 was initially designed to be used as a security algorithm, but it has been found to suffer from extensive vulnerabilities. It can still be used as a checksum, however, for example in a digital archive. MD5 checksums are created before or while files are added to the digital archive. They are checked against previously generated checksums at regular intervals and/or when consulting a file, to see whether the file is still complete and unchanged (and not corrupted).