Two common ways to hash hashes of Windows checksum files

Where do people often go to download software and applications? Have you ever thought about the security of software, applications, or resources that have been downloaded back? When Windows 10 and Office 2016 were released, many friends who did not have permission used the third-party website to download the installation image. And how do you ensure that the image or software that you download is the official version, and that you have not been tampered with?

Many friends will think of the downloaded resource check MD5 or SHA1 and the official version of the hash value, if the error indicates that it has not been tampered with. What kind of tools do you use to calculate the checksum value in Windows? This article recommends two common ways for Windows to verify file hashes.

Hashtab tool Check Hash

In this article we first introduced the Hashtab third-party tool, Hashtab is an ultra-fast file hash Check value calculation tool, currently used by users in over 200 countries. Hashtab can provide a variety of hashing algorithms, such as MD5, SHA1, SHA2, RIPEMD, HAVAL, and Whirlpool. Once installed, the Hashtab feature can be integrated into the Windows Shell to allow the user to verify the integrity and authenticity of the file in the simplest possible way.

After installing the Hashtab tool it will be automatically embedded into the properties, we just need to verify the file on the right click on the selection of properties and click on the more than the Hashtab tab can be used directly, is currently supported to the Windows 10 operating system.

As shown, clicking on the Options button will bring up the Hashtab option configuration interface, where we can manually configure the hashing algorithm that needs to be computed.

PowerShell Checksum Hash

Without installing any third-party software, we can also use Powershell to verify the hash value of multiple algorithms directly in Windows, including: SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, MACTripleDES, MD5, RIPEMD160 algorithm.

It is also very simple to use, you can refer to the following example:

Get-filehash [-path file path] [-algorithm algorithm]

Note: It is best to enclose the file path in quotation marks.

From WinClient

Two common ways to hash hashes of Windows checksum files