I recently wanted to verify the hash of a file, named setup.exe, that was provided in a GnuPG signature file, named setup.txt. I used the PowerShell code below to verify the expected SHA-256 hash contained within the setup.txt file against the actual hash of the setup.exe file. You can use this script by modifying the …
Tag: Hash
Jan 13 2012
File Hashing Is Built Into Windows
Note: This post was updated on 08/08/2021 to include instructions for PowerShell. I always used to download the md5sum.exe and sha1sum.exe files when I needed to generate a file’s hash in Windows. I just discovered that certutil.exe, included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (and later), will do this for you (I’m not …