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<h2 id="checksum">Checksum</h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Generates checksum for files. This task can also be used to perform checksum verifications.</p>
<p>Note that many popular message digest functions—including MD5 and SHA-1—have been
broken recently. If you are going to use the task to create checksums used in an environment where
security is important, please take some time to investigate the algorithms offered by your JCE
provider. Note also that some JCE providers like the one by <a href="https://www.bouncycastle.org/"
target="_top">The Legion of the Bouncy Castle</a>,
the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/" target="_top">GNU Crypto project</a>
or <a href="https://jce.iaik.tugraz.at/sic/Products" target="_top">the Technical University Graz</a>
offer more digest algorithms than those built-in into your JDK.</p>
<p>Warning: the case of the extension is that of the algorithm used. If you ask
for <samp>SHA1</samp>, you get a <samp>.SHA1</samp> extension; if you ask for <samp>sha1</samp>, you
get a file ending in <samp>.sha1</samp>. The Java Crypto Engines are case-insensitive in matching
algorithms, so choose a name to match your desired output extension, or set the <var>fileext</var>
attribute. The names of common hashing algorithms can be located on
the <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/StandardNames.html#MessageDigest"
target="_top">Cryptography Architecture Standard Algorithm Name Documentation</a></p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table class="attr">
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<th scope="col">Attribute</th>
<th scope="col">Description</th>
<th scope="col">Required</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>file</td>
<td>The file to generate checksum for.</td>
<td>Yes, unless at least one nested (filesystem-only) resource collection is specified.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>todir</td>
<td>The root directory where checksums should be written.</td>
<td>No; by default, checksum files will be written to the same directory as the original
files. <em>since Apache Ant 1.6</em>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>algorithm</td>
<td>Specifies the algorithm to be used to compute the checksum. Please check
the <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/StandardNames.html#MessageDigest"
target="_top">documentation</a> for available algorithm names, like <q>SHA-1</q>
or <q>SHA-512</q>.
</td>
<td>No; defaults to <q>MD5</q></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>provider</td>
<td>Specifies the provider of the algorithm.</td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
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<td>fileext</td>
<td>The generated checksum file's name will be the original filename with the <var>fileext</var>
added to it.
</td>
<td>No; defaults to a <q>.</q> and the algorithm name being used</td>
</tr>
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<td>property</td>
<td>This attribute can mean two different things, it depends on the presence of
the <var>verifyproperty</var> attribute.<br/><strong>If you don't set</strong>
the <var>verifyproperty</var> attribute, property specifies the name of the property to be set
with the generated checksum value.<br/><strong>If you set</strong>
the <var>verifyproperty</var> attribute, property specifies the checksum you expect to be
generated (the checksum itself, not a name of a property containing the checksum).<br/> This
cannot be specified when <var>fileext</var> is being used or when the number of files for
which checksums are to be generated is greater than 1.
</td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>pattern</td>
<td>Specifies the pattern to use as a pattern suitable
for <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html"
target="_top">MessageFormat</a> where <code>{0}</code> is replaced with the checksum
and <code>{1}</code> with the file name. <em>Since Ant 1.7.0</em><br/><em>Since Ant
1.8.2</em> <code>{2}</code> is replaced by the path of the file relative to the checksum file
being written, <code>{3}</code> with the path of the file relative to the
project's <var>basedir</var> and <code>{4}</code> with the absolute path of the file.</td>
<td>No; default is <q>{0}</q></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>format</td>
<td>Specifies the pattern to use as one of a well-known format. Supported values are
<table>
<tr>
<th scope="col">name</th>
<th scope="col">pattern</th>
<th scope="col">description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>CHECKSUM</td>
<td><code>{0}</code></td>
<td>only the checksum itself</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MD5SUM</td>
<td><code>{0} *{1}</code></td>
<td>the format of GNU textutils <code>md5sum</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SVF</td>
<td><code>MD5 ({1}) = {0}</code></td>
<td>the format of BSD <code>md5</code> command</td>
</tr>
</table>
<em>Since Ant 1.7.0</em></td>
<td>No; default is <q>CHECKSUM</q></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>totalproperty</td>
<td>If specified, this attribute specifies the name of the property that will hold a checksum of
all the checksums and file paths. The individual checksums and the relative paths to the files
within the resource collections in which they are defined will be used to compute this
checksum. (The file separators in the paths will be converted to <q>/</q> before computation
to ensure platform portability). <em>since Ant 1.6</em></td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>forceoverwrite</td>
<td>Overwrite existing files even if the destination files are newer.</td>
<td>No; defaults to <q>no</q></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>verifyproperty</td>
<td>Specifies the name of the property to be set with <q>true</q> or <q>false</q> depending upon
whether the generated checksum matches the existing checksum. When this is set, the generated
checksum is not written to a file or property, but rather, the content of the file or property
is used to check against the generated checksum.</td>
<td>No</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>readbuffersize</td>
<td>The size of the buffer (in bytes) to use when reading a file.</td>
<td>No; defaults to <q>8192</q>—you may get a better performance on big files if you
increase this value</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<h4>resource collections</h4>
<p><a href="../Types/resources.html#collection">Resource collections</a> are used to select files
for which checksums should be generated.</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<p><strong>Example 1</strong></p>
<p>Generate a MD5 checksum for <samp>foo.bar</samp> and store the checksum in the destination
file <samp>foo.bar.MD5</samp>. <samp>foo.bar.MD5</samp> is overwritten only if <samp>foo.bar</samp>
is newer than itself.</p>
<pre><checksum file="foo.bar"/></pre>
<p><strong>Example 2</strong></p>
<p>Generate a MD5 checksum for <samp>foo.bar</samp> and store the checksum
in <samp>foo.bar.MD5</samp>. If <samp>foo.bar.MD5</samp> already exists, it is overwritten.</p>
<pre><checksum file="foo.bar" forceOverwrite="yes"/></pre>
<p><strong>Example 3</strong></p>
<p>Generate a MD5 checksum for <samp>foo.bar</samp> and store it in the project
property <code>foobarMD5</code>.</p>
<pre><checksum file="foo.bar" property="foobarMD5"/></pre>
<p><strong>Example 4</strong></p>
<p>Generate a MD5 checksum for <samp>foo.bar</samp>, compare it against <samp>foo.bar.MD5</samp> and
set <code>isMD5ok</code> to either <q>true</q> or <q>false</q>, depending upon the result.</p>
<pre><checksum file="foo.bar" verifyProperty="isMD5ok"/></pre>
<p><strong>Example 5</strong></p>
<p>Generate a SHA-512 checksum for <samp>foo.bar</samp> and store the checksum in the destination
file <samp>foo.bar.asc</samp>. <samp>foo.bar.asc</samp> is overwritten only if <samp>foo.bar</samp>
is newer than itself.</p>
<pre><checksum file="foo.bar" algorithm="SHA-512" fileext="asc"/></pre>
<p><strong>Example 6</strong></p>
<p>Generate a MD5 checksum for <samp>foo.bar</samp>, compare it against the value of the
property <code>md5</code>, and set <code>isEqual</code> to either <q>true</q> or <q>false</q>,
depending upon the result.</p>
<pre><checksum file="foo.bar" property="${md5}" verifyProperty="isEqual"/></pre>
<p><strong>Example 7</strong></p>
<p>Just like Example 1, but generates a <samp>.MD5</samp> file for every file that begins with the
name <samp>foo</samp>.</p>
<pre>
<checksum>
<fileset dir=".">
<include name="foo*"/>
</fileset>
</checksum></pre>
<p><strong>Example 8</strong></p>
<p>Just like Example 4, but only sets <code>isChecksumEqual</code> to <q>true</q>, if the checksum
matches—it will never be set to <q>false</q>. This example demonstrates use with
the <code>condition</code> task.</p>
<pre>
<condition property="isChecksumEqual">
<checksum>
<fileset dir=".">
<include name="foo.bar"/>
</fileset>
</checksum>
</condition></pre>
<h3>Note</h3>
<p>When working with more than one file, if condition and/or <var>verifyproperty</var> is used, the
result will be true only if the checksums matched correctly for all files being considered.</p>
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