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Is there a built-in method for computing an SHA-1 or MD5 hash in Windows 7?

Is there a built-in method for computing an SHA-1 or MD5 hash in Windows 7?
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Can a file be maliciously changed in a way that maintains its original SHA-1 Hash?

According to this article, and many others, SHA-1 is not secure. In my case, I am not concerned about passwords or digital certificates. I am concerned about file integrity. Is it reasonably possible for a file (e.g. an ISO image or executable file)…
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How to check SSH key version locally

In general i'm searching for a method to show information about a private or public SSH key without contacting a server, like keylength, algorithm, ssh version and so on. Especially I like to know if some key is a sha1 or sha2.
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How can zero byte files generate a hash value?

How can a zero byte text file generate a hash when hashed with sha1sum, sha256sum etc? What data are the programs hashing to generate a hash value? Ta
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How to check if your ssh keys are in the ssh-rsa2 format?

So recently there were news of OpenSSH dropping support for SHA-1 logins and I am trying to understand which format they are referring to. Since years i've been generating keys via ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048. Is this the type not recommended anymore…
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Why are Root CAs with SHA1 signatures not a risk

Take Verisign's website, for example, which has a root CA with a sha1 hash signature. Am I mistaken with understanding that were one to find a collision, they could impersonate the Verisign root CA, and use that to generate an intermediate and then…
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Installing sha1sum on git-bash (MinGW)

I've been using git-bash on Windows 7 a lot. I gather it is a wrapper of MinGW. It has md5sum but not sha1sum. I'd like to install sha1sum, but I can't figure out how. When I try mingw-get, it says "command not found" When I tried to download…
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Different SHA1 result every time I check, bad drive?

I was attempting to download and run the Windows 10 Insider Preview, but after a few failed boots and installation errors, I decided to test the SHA1 sum before committing. I noticed that every time I ran the SHA1 sum, the outcome was different! I…
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Alternative to xxd that returns bytes?

I am on Mac OS X 10.8.2, running a compiled copy of xxd v1.10 (source code) as well as the copy of xxd that comes preinstalled on OS X. I am trying to generate a Base64-encoded SHA1 signature via a chain of piped commands in Terminal. Normally I…
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How to get sha1sum to work on Mac OS X?

I have an application that I'm porting and as part of the test suite, I run sha1sum. I'd like to have test code that works on all my platforms and not vary across platforms. Mac OS X, is the first platform without a sha1sum application. I did…
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why do we need SHA1 checksum?

In this page I saw the SHA1 checksum. I know it's a hash algorithm, but I don't know why we need it for download code. So I clicked "what's this?" but got no any more information. It's hash, so what? Why we should know it's hash when we download a…
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Why Outlook client's S/MIME settings use SHA1 as the default Hash Algorithm for digital signing a message?

can someone tell why Outlook client S/MIME settings use SHA1 as the default Hash Algorithm? Doesn't that put the certificate private key to a risk when weak algorithm is used? Or am I misunderstanding the signing process? Thanks, -Harri
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Sha1Sum on kali.org

I am unable to download kali linux from their official website kali.org. I try to verify the sha1sum but all I get is invalid https://gyazo.com/2e02792c685fbd2ebfd50e04fe218501. Any ideas? I can verify sha1sums of other files from other websites…
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How Do I Troubleshoot Corrupt Downloads

I won't try to get this all documented in this first post, as I am sure you folks will have a ton of questions for me. I am having problems with my home LAN. For several weeks I have been having problem downloading large files. I shall define large…
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Derive sha1 hash from openssl binary base64 value

Digital Cinema Packages contain checksums in the following format as described here: $ openssl sha1 -binary 'dcpfile.xml' |openssl base64 IxcfhXNHlw+1bbDFu0kp8KRylpU= How can I take a value such as IxcfhXNHlw+1bbDFu0kp8KRylpU= and derive the…
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