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

QuickHash an open source tool supporting MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512 and available for the Linux, Windows, and Apple Mac.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/quickhash/