How to Generate an MD5 Checksum for a File

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00:00 Question
00:28 Accepted answer (Score 635)
01:13 Answer 2 (Score 329)
03:38 Answer 3 (Score 36)
06:23 Answer 4 (Score 30)
07:03 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3431825/generating-an-md5-checksum-of-a-file

Accepted answer links:
[hashlib.md5()]: http://docs.python.org/library/hashlib.html

Answer 2 links:
[MD5 is known broken]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#Collision_vulnerabilities
[recent flaws discovered in SHA1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1#SHAttered_%E2%80%93_first_public_collision

Answer 4 links:
[assignment operator]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html#assignment-expressions
[hashlib]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/hashlib.html
[hashlib.blake2b]: https://docs.python.org/library/hashlib.html#hashlib.blake2b
[faster]: https://blake2.net/

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