Online Adler32 Hash Generator

Adler32

Adler32 is a checksum designed to detect corruption in Zlib's compressed data or corruption in the algorithms. Since it was much faster than its more reliable competitor, CRC32 it was chosen for this task. If the uncompressed data does not match the Adler32 checksum, the application can inform its protocol or the user to retransmit the data. However, the main use of Adler32 was to debug implementations of Zlib. Adler32 as well as CRC32 are insufficient for any purpose that requires a high degree of certainty. The chance of a collision for an ideal 32-bit checksum is 1 in 4 billion, which can be easily computed in a few hours by anyone with a reasonable computer. An attacker can even do it in realtime if they had precomputed all checksums beforehand. Adler32 has known weaknesses making it much more susceptible to collision than the more reliable CRC32.
An Adler-32 checksum is obtained by calculating two 16-bit checksums A and B and concatenating their bits into a 32-bit integer. A is the sum of all bytes in the stream plus one, and B is the sum of the individual values of A from each step.
At the beginning of an Adler-32 run, A is initialized to 1, B to 0. The sums are done modulo 65521 (the largest prime number smaller than 216). The bytes are stored in network order (big endian), B occupying the two most significant bytes.