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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A numerical value calculated from a series of bits of digital data, often by summing their values, used to test whether the data has changed during storage or transmission.
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- noun a
digit orcharacter , derived by applying a suitablealgorithm to somedata , used tocheck whethererrors have occurred intransmission ,storage ordata entry - verb To
compute a checksum.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage
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Examples
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Of course, it's assuming that whoever built the downloadable file, computed the checksum, and wrote the web page listing the checksum is honest, but it's still a useful check to make.
How Do You Know If Your Download Really Has A Virus? | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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That's when Apple first introduced a special operation, called a checksum hash, into its products to ensure that Apple's devices were communicating with iTunes and not some other type of software.
CSO 2010
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That's when Apple first introduced a special operation, called a checksum hash, into its products to ensure that Apple's devices were communicating with iTunes and not some other type of software.
CSO Robert McMillan 2010
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That's when Apple first introduced a special operation, called a checksum hash, into its products to ensure that Apple's devices were communicating with iTunes and not some other type of software.
CSO Robert McMillan 2010
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A checksum is a fixed-size datum that is computed from a block of data.
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This has to do with a checksum, which is used to confirm the file.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2009
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That's when Apple first introduced a special operation, called a checksum hash, into its products to ensure that Apple's devices were communicating with iTunes and not some other type of software.
CSO 2009
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In September 2007, Apple introduced new software into iPod that runs a cryptographic operation on iTunes data, creating a special number called a checksum hash.
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The latest iPods have a cryptographic "checksum" in their song databases that prevents third-party applications from synching with the portable music players.
Boing Boing 2007
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Lexmark designed their printer program so that it would not accept a toner cartridge unless it received the correct "checksum" or validation number.
The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle
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