http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/sha_1/top/2009-12-06T19:02:40-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2009-12-06T19:02:40-08:00Stephen Akikihttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172143/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576973-getting-the-sha-1-or-md5-hash-of-a-directory/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576973 by <a href="/recipes/users/4172143/">Stephen Akiki</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/directory/">directory</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/getting/">getting</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/hash/">hash</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/md5/">md5</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sha_1/">sha_1</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/the/">the</a>). Revision 4. </p> <h5><a href="http://akiscode.com/articles/sha-1directoryhash.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://akiscode.com/articles/sha-1directoryhash.shtml</a></h5> <p>By definition a cryptographic hash is, "a deterministic procedure that takes an arbitrary block of data and returns a fixed-size bit string, the (cryptographic) hash value, such that an accidental or intentional change to the data will change the hash value". </p> <p>Usually these hashes are used on files to "fingerprint" them, but in order to do the same to a directory you have to do something like this: </p>