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Description

A multi-threaded, parallel Hash Calculator.

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It’s a ClickOnce application, so you can choose to update whenever you start it.

Features

• Parallel calculation of hash values
• Compare hashes
• Save hash values to file
• Check hash values in file (e.g. .md5, also see FAQ)
• See runtime for each algorithm (hover over progress bar)
• Algorithms
  • MD5
  • SHA1
  • SHA256
  • SHA384
  • SHA512
  • More
    • RIPEMD160

Multi-Threading

• A multi-core machine can run several algorithms simultaneously
• When using several algorithms, you don’t have to wait for SHA512 (slow) to finish to display the value of MD5 (fast)
• The GUI does not freeze and is still usable

I did not find a decent Hash Calculator that supports all this. That does not mean other developers are incompetent, it just got a lot easier in the last years to program multi-threaded.

FAQ

• My hash value files are not found or incorrect
  • Hash Calculator only supports a limited range of hash files. The file names are displayed in the GUI and it only supports files of the following formats
    • <hash><space><anything> (tools like md5sum)
    • <hash>
  • It only supports per-file hash files. So e.g. MD5SUM or MD5SUMS is not supported
  • The file name needs to be <full file name>.<hash>. <full file name> needs to include all file extensions like .exe
• I cannot run it as another user or Administrator
  • ClickOnce applications cannot be run as an Administrator or any other user

Changelog

• 1.4.6
  • Fix: Reverted compare change, multi-threading leads to a race condition
• 1.4.5
  • Enhancement: Icons and other UX
  • Enhancement: Compare now works retrospectively after the run
  • Fix: Compare works the wrong way when there’s no result
• 1.4.4
  • Incorporated usability feedback
• 1.4.3
  • Feature: Play sound when done (optional)
  • Feature: RIPEMD160 (under More)
  • Enhancement: Showing rules for normalization
• 1.4.2
  • Fix: Status set incorrect while saving
  • Fix: Missing newline in hash file
• 1.4.1:
  • Enhancement: User input (hash file and compare) is now normalized
  • Internal: Cleaner code
• 1.4.0:
  • Feature: Add runtime
  • Feature: Check hash files
  • Enhancement: Save hash file follows sort-of standard (tools like md5sum)
• 1.3.1: Fix: Threading Problem
• 1.3.0:
  • Feature: Error Checks
  • Fix: Borders not resetting correctly
• 1.2.2: First public release

Known Issues

• Two shortcuts in Start Menu
  • ClickOnce generated two Start Menu shortcuts because of a configuration error in an old release. One of them points to an outdated version. To get rid of this, uninstall the app (via Programs & Features) and re-install again, it will delete all shortcuts.

Feedback

Send feedback to hash-calculator at dreami.ch

Open Source

This tool is open source with an MIT license. You can fork it on Github.