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Checksum verification - Blake2B / 3 or SHA512? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/manzurfahim on 2024-06-02 05:48:22.

Hello everyone,

Hope you are well.

I am thinking of doing a checksum verification between the source files and the files on backup drives. Quickhash seems like a nice little utility to do that. It has multiple algorithms: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-3, SHA256, SHA512, xxHash64, Blake2B, Blake3 and CRC32.

Did a little googling and it seems like SHA512 and Blake2B / 3 are the best ones, but I'm only going to choose one and wondering if you use any of them or checksum and which should I use. I could use some advise.

Many thanks in advance.

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