November 24, 1997

WinMD5 for Windows 95

WinMD5 is freeware distributed by ING America, Inc. (www.ingamerica.com)

WinMD5 will create a message digest file for any file you select. The 
message digest file is created by default in the same directory as the
target file. WinMD5 will verify any message digest file and its 
corresponding target file. 

The message digest algorithm used is MD5, invented by Ron Rivest. The
message digest code used was written by Colin Plumb in 1993 with no copyright
claimed.  It has been tested against the RSA Data Security, Inc., reference
implementation, but does not use that implementation.  The MD5SUM main
program was written by Branko Lankester in 1993, and modified slightly by
Colin Plumb.  The getopt.c source code is public domain code from AT&T. 



1 Requirement
   OS:	Windows95
	
2 Installation
   (1) Run "MD5SETUP.EXE".

3 Usage
  3.1 How to create digest
    (1) Select a file you would like to create digest for in Explorer.
    (2) Right click on the file, then you can see shortcut menu.
    (3) Select "Create Digest" from shortcut menu.
    (4) In succeed to create digest, dialog box will appear. This dialog box 
        shows file name(you selected) and digest strings(hash data). If you 
        save this digest to a file, press "Save" button. Or not, press "Close".
    (5) If you select "Save", common open dialog box will appear. Enter file 
        name for the digest file.

3.2 How to check the digest
  3.2.1 Check from Digest file
    (1) Select a digest file in Explorer.
    (2) Right click on the file, select "Check Digest" from shortcut menu.
    (3) You can see result. If digest of original file is as same as one in 
        digest file, you will get 'OK'. Otherwise, you will get 'Failed'.

  3.2.2 Check from Original file
    (1) Select a file you would like to check digest.
    (2) Right click on the file, select "Check Digest" from shortcut menu.
    (3) It shows open dialog, then you select a digest file including digest 
        of target file(you selected).
    (4) You get the result of checking.

4 Uninstall
    (1) Open control panel.
    (2) Open "Add/Remove Application" icon.
    (3) Select "WinMD5" from list.
    (4) Press "Add/Remove" button, then all of WinMD5 programs will be deleted 
        from your disk.
        Digest files you already created will not be removed. But you can
	not use these digest files with other software directly, because 
	the digest file format is unique for WinMD5.