February 6, 2021
Calculating hashes in Python without Python
The law of the instrument tells us that we might not use the best tool for the job. In this post we show an example where Python is not the tool for the job.
We created a simple script which adds the hash of a file in the filename, enable you to detect data degration for cold storage. Note that I only use Unix systems (Linux, Android and Chromebook).
When creating the following script using Python, you would likely first read the file into memory and then calculate a hash, as seen in the following script:
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