Feb 26, 2018
Using certutil for quick hashes
Here's a quick one: the certutil command from Windows can be used to generate hashes on files.
Command syntax is:
certutil -hashfile <filename><hashing algorithm>
Options for hashing algoritm includes:
MD2
MD4
MD5
SHA1
SHA256
SHA384
SHA512
So for example, if I wanted a MD5 checkum value for a file called test.txt, the command would look like:
certutil -hashfile test.txt MD5
This is convenient on Windows systems that don't have modern versions of powershell.
