What would be helpful is a shasum of the phoenixminer binary. I am using 5.5c downloaded from this thread a while ago, with the right checksum. This is the linux version. My Phoenix miner binary has:
user@miner$ sha256sum PhoenixMiner
6de6285d944981576862c960dfa917bbd4f72c5fac45f0b2880c560c89f12e81 PhoenixMiner
Just verified on a hiveos install and the checksum is the same for the binary there.
If somebody could do the same for Windows (non-nicehash binary, but 'official' download) we have something to compare the nicehash binaries to. Just an idea
I have the windows version but sadly deleted the zip after I extracted it and all I have is the folder from inside it. I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to this so is it still possible to get the sha sum? If so please let me know and I can share it.
I didn't checksum the zip here, just the executable (the phoenixminer binary itself), because mining-os'es only give you the executable not the zip.
So to answer your question: checksumming the executable and posting info about the file (size in bytes) will be helpful.