Alternatives for md5sum?

[NormaJean]

Ahoy,

I've been finding that md5sum is fairly slow when doing larger files (~200gb). I've had a sticky beak around, but couldn't find anything but maybe one of you lovely people could point me in the way of an alternative or perhaps a fix for this?
Cheers

Sys Specs:
xeon x5460
8gb ram

[Ozymandias_117]

There's shasum. Depending how secure you want it, there is sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum (From least secure to most, but the more secure, the more processing power required)

[CharlesA]

There's shasum. Depending how secure you want it, there is sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum

+1.

I use sha1sum all the time.

[NormaJean]

Thanks guys, I'm using it put across production work so I want to be certain, that what I copied across is the same as what was on the server.

But, hopefully this might be better then md5

[NormaJean]

Sorry guys, just another question.
Have a directory, with 4 sub directories, that all have say 200 files a piece.
I want to create a sha1 for each file without too much hassle. The man page isn't very helpful

Would I be better off creating a script?

[Vaphell]

find . -type f -exec sha1sum "{}" \;

if you want to create a file with the list

find . ! -name 'sha1.lst' -type f -exec sha1sum "{}" \; > sha1.lst

bolded part excludes the result file itself in case you want to rerun the command (already existing file with previous sums would be included)

[NormaJean]

Thank you very much