Easy Content Hashing in GNU Octave

🔎📝 When you download new data, how can you test whether it was altered along the way? The short answer is to use a hashing function. Today, we'll cover a popular one included with #opensource software you may recognize.

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Timeline:

0:00 - Objectives 1:25 - Hashing string literals 1:55 - Hashing string variables 2:23 - Hashing file content 2:46 - Closing remarks

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Commands Featured Today...

hash('sha256','Hello world!')

myString = "Hello world!" hash('sha256',myString)

hash('sha256',fileread(‘myFile.txt'))

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