CRC32 Calculates the 32-bit cyclic redundancy checksum
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CRC32 Description

The CRC32 application was developed to be a small tool that calculates the 32-bit cyclic redundancy checksum (CRC-32) of a file and displays it along with other useful file information in a window. The checksum calculation algorithm used in CRC32 is exactly the same as that internally used by PKZIP and WinZip, i.e. the 32-bit CRC values calculated by PKZIP and CRC32 are identical. Though you can use CRC32 to calculate 32-bit checksums of any file the real strength and usefulness of CRC32 is in comparing Wave Sound Files to see if their non-silent music parts are identical. In particular CRC32 may come in handy when comparing two different extractions of a CD Digital Audio track to ensure that the performed digital copy is perfect. CRC is a “digital fingerprint” of a file. With CRC32 you can “melt down” a huge 20 MB (or even much bigger) file to have a small, handy reference to it, a single 32-bit number like 7d9c42fb (hexadecimal notation) which would unambiguously reflect the entire contents of this huge file. Now if some changes to this file would happen, no matter how small, maybe only a single wrong bit somewhere in the middle, a new CRC-32 calculation would yield a completely different reference number (say 3faa83bd). So there’d be no doubt about it -- this is not the same file anymore. On the other hand if the reference number would be still the same (7d9c42fb) you might be sure that the file hasn’t changed.

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