In the past, we’ve talked about several free tools designed for calculating hashes and generating Checksum files. Most lack many features, and some have an ancient-looking user interface, which is ...

This will be a technical article introducing file hashes, how to generate hashes with PowerShell and, when copying files, how to use hashes to your advantage to ensure file copies were successful.

The Fifth Circuit has handed down a fascinating computer search case in United States v. Reddick. Here's the question: If a private company runs a hash of a file and compares the hash to those of ...

Three cryptographers at Stanford University recently came up with a clever solution to the persistent problem of identity theft on the Internet. Wily hackers in Russia, China, and other countries send ...

But did you know that you can also determine the hash method that was used and report the number of days since a password was last changed from this file as well? To look at a user record in the ...