I'm on a Windows machine and I want to run a checksum on the MySQL distribution I just got. It looks like there are products to download, an unsupported Microsoft tool, and probably other options. I'm wondering if there is a consensus for the best tool to use. This may be a really easy question, I've just never run a checksum routine before.
Any MD5 will produce a good checksum to verify the file. Any of the files listed at the bottom of this page will work fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5sum