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Selection of utilities

hashit – generate file hashes quickly

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hashit is a cross-platform command-line utility for generating file hashes quickly.

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Selection of utilities

hashdeep – generate and verify file hashes

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hashdeep is a command line tool for generating and verifying file hashes across large collections of files.

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Selection of utilities

cksfv.rs – reimplements the classic cksfv tool

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cksfv.rs is a command-line utility written in Rust that reimplements the classic cksfv tool for working with SFV checksum files.

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Selection of utilities

cksfv – create and check sfv listings using CRC32 checksums

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cksfv is a command-line utility for creating and checking Simple File Verification (.sfv) listings using CRC32 checksums.

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luha – simple file checksum tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

luha is a simple file checksum command-line interface tool.

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Network Security

digup – update md5sum or shasum digest files

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

digup is a console tool to update md5sum or shasum digest files.

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Network Security

sha3sum – Keccak, SHA-3, SHAKE, and RawSHAKE checksum utilities

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

sha3sum are fully configurable byte-orientated checksum utilities for Keccak and its close derivatives SHA-3, SHAKE and RawSHAKE.

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Network Security

md5sum – compute and check MD5 message digest

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

md5sum is software that calculates and verifies 128-bit MD5 hashes, as described in RFC 1321.

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Network Security

Jacksum – data integrity software for working with checksums, CRCs, and message digests

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Jacksum is data integrity software for working with checksums, CRCs, and message digests (hashes).

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Network Security

cfv – test and create checksum files

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

cfv is a utility to both test and create .sfv, .csv, .crc, .md5(sfv-like), md5sum, bsd md5, sha1sum, and .torrent files.

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Network Security

RHash – utility for verifying hash sums of files

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

RHash is a utility for computing hash sums. It offers calculation and verification of magnet links and various message digests.

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