What is the best way to calculate a checksum for a file that is on my machine?

Question

I\'m on a Windows machine and I want to run a checksum on the MySQL distribution I just got. It looks like there are products to download, an unsupported Microsoft tool, an

Answer 1

Any MD5 will produce a good checksum to verify the file. Any of the files listed at the bottom of this page will work fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5sum