.TH CRC32 1 "June 21, 2005" .SH NAME crc32 \- compute CRC-32 checksums for the given files .SH SYNOPSIS .B crc32 \fIfilename\fP [ \fIfilename\fP ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION \fBcrc32\fP is a simple utility that calculates the CRC-32 checksum for each of the given files. .PP Note that the CRC-32 checksum is merely used for error detection in transmission and storage. It is not intended to guard against the malicious modification of files (i.e., it is not a cryptographic hash). .PP This utility is supplied with the \fBArchive::Zip\fP module for Perl. .SH SEE ALSO .BR Archive::Zip (3pm). .SH AUTHOR The Archive::Zip module was written by Ned Konz. .br This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).