11-1: Installing Hash Generators and Comparing Hashes

11-1: Installing Hash Generators and Comparing Hashes

In this practical, learn about different hash generators that generate different hash values and compare them.

First, go to http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/
Download md5deep.
I suggest you download into a easily accessible place as this practical would use command prompt.

Extract the contents in the file.
Then create a Word document with content inside, "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country."
Save this file as Country1.docx in the same folder as the extracts of md5deep.

Using command prompt, navigate to the place where you store the extracted files.
Type in md5deep Country1.docx and press enter.
It will show you the hash value of Country1.docx
Next, try md5deep md5deep.txt and press enter.
It will show you the hash value of the md5deep.txt
Next, remove the line you typed in Country1.docx and save it as Country2.docx
Do the same step as what we did for command prompt for Country1.docx
It will generate the hash value of Country2.docx


We can go on to try the other hash generators.
Example, type in sha1deep for SHA-1
sha256deep for SHA-256
whirlpooldeep for whirlpool

From trying all these different generators, I see that the length of each hash value generated by the different hash generators are different. They also use a hexadecimal number system for the hash values.