Transloadit adds MD5 hash support for file integrity
We are happy to announce that, from now on, we will create MD5 file hashes for all uploaded and imported files, as well as all encoding result files. This allows you to more easily check for files that have been uploaded to Transloadit already via your platform or check downloaded encoding results for integrity.
At the time of this release, the JSON parameter calc_md5hash was supported by all of our
Robots. It was set to false by default. You could activate this functionality by setting
the parameter to true. For current output fields, see the Assembly result documentation.
MD5 is, of course, not very secure, in case you were considering it as means to defend against attackers. That is not the intended purpose, however. We felt MD5's wide availability makes it 'perfect' for integrity checks.
We hope you'll enjoy this change!