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I see these for download with all the themes, what do they do and how do you use it?

thanks
I Think Its Just To Make Sure The File Is The Real And Not A Fake One That Can Give You A Virus
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 Wrote:MD5
In cryptography, MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a widely used cryptographic hash function with a 128-bit hash value. As an Internet standard (RFC 1321), MD5 has been employed in a wide variety of security applications, and is also commonly used to check the integrity of files. An MD5 hash is typically expressed as a 32-character hexadecimal number.

MD5 was designed by Ronald Rivest in 1991 to replace an earlier hash function, MD4. In 1996, a flaw was found with the design of MD5[citation needed]; while it was not a clearly fatal weakness, cryptographers began recommending the use of other algorithms, such as SHA-1 (which has since been found vulnerable itself). In 2004, more serious flaws were discovered making further use of the algorithm for security purposes questionable[citation needed].
thanks all ;) so it's nothing I really need then
Yeah I Don't Think You'll Need It :)
It was added mainly for the large 1GB+ images packs.

For themes, you don't really need to verify the files against the MD5 checksum (but if you really want to... >_>)
but since most themes as rar or zip if u hapen to get corrupted data winrar itself would detect the file is corrupted
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