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by lunarg on September 4th 2015, at 13:57

The Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier (fciv.exe) is a command line tool you can use to calculate MD5 and SHA1 hashes for files.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=11533

It is a suitable alternative to linux's md5sum, and eliminates the need for third party tools or Cygwin.