verify-md5

A standalone program to compare a file of md5 hash signatures in /path/to/md5.json to the md5 hashes of the contents of the listed files in that same directory

Installation

To install globally:

npm i verify-md5 -g

Prerequisites

1. nodejs is installed and accesible by invoking node
2. An md5.json file consisting of an object with filenames as keys and base64 md5 as value for each key.

Example md5.json file:

Usage

If the path begins with gs:// it refers to a Google Cloud Storage[tm] bucket, e.g. gs://bucketName/path/to/md5.json

verify-md5 --key /path/to/secret/myserviceaccountkey.json gs://bucketName/path/to/md5.json

If the path is a filesystem path, the local filesystem is used:

verify-md5 /path/to/md5.json

--json enables json output:

json output is a 4 element array:

[true|false, goodFiles, badFiles, failErrors, dirname]

Otherwise, "human-readable" output is used.

Examples

Success example, using storage bucket.

Failure example, with local file system.

Authentication / Authorization

verify-md5 on a filesystem path runs with the permissions of the current user.

verify-md5 on a gs:// path will attempt to authenticate with the Google Storage API.

Unless you run in the Google Cloud, you will need to include a --key keyfilename to access your buckets.

If you need to generate a key for your project, look in the IAM section of the Google Cloud Platform Console and generate either:

• a service account key for role: Storage Object Viewer
• or, for granularity, a new service account with no permissions, added as a reader to an individual bucket acl.

Important: It is solely your responsibility to keep API keys secret and manage related security and financial risks.

Storage API usage

Only the bucket's md5.json file is downloaded with a storage.bucket.file.download call.

Then storage.bucket.file.get calls are used to access md5 metadata for each file, not .download() calls.

Creating the necessary md5 metadata in the bucket is normally automatic when objects are stored.

Creating the md5.json file in the bucket to enable these comparisons is your responsibility.

Help

verify-md5 --help

prints this reminder message

Copyright

Copyright 2017 Paul Brewer, Economic and Financial Technology Consulting LLC [email protected]

License

The MIT License

Trademarks

Google Cloud Storage[tm] is a trademark of Google, Inc.

This software is not a product of Google, Inc.