Matlab / GNU Octave file checksum

February 9, 2024

Computing file hash checksum allows some verification of file integrity, assuming the file is not maliciously altered to have the same checksum. MD5 and SHA-256 are among the methods available in Matlab-stdlib (works on Matlab or GNU Octave) file_checksum that computes the checksum of a file. The file is read in chunks to avoid overflowing the Java VM memory.