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New Testimonials Section Added Dear user.... I'm pleased to say I get a lot of e-mails thanking me for QuickHash and I get the occasional donation too. In order to help others users read about YOUR experience of QuickHash, I'd very much appreciate you taking the time to write up your positive experiences for publication here. It's also an opportunity for you to get your own company name and website listed on this website. Submit a Testimonial HERE : http://34.225.163.28/testimonials-page/ Users who wish to see improvements or find fault can of course use the bug tracker. Testimonials are [...]

From time to time, I like to see where QuickHash has hit the news and tech bloggers. I was delighted to find today (a few weeks after publication I admit) a great and inspiring article at Mustang News (http://mustangnews.net) titled 'How cybersecurity is becoming a hot topic at Cal Poly' written by Brendan Matsuyama. The link to the article is here for those who want to read it in full : http://mustangnews.net/cal-poly-cybersecurity-leader/ and it talks about how the California Cyber Training Complex (CCTC). Key stakeholders in the project include Cal Poly, the California Military Department, local and state law [...]

I spotted this a little late, but  Manny Fernandez over at Infosec Monkey (http://www.infosecmonkey.com/2016/10/14/quickhash-multi-platform-hashing-tool/) blogged about QuickHash back in October 2016 with a very friendly and detailed description of QuickHash-GUI, and he also gives many reasons as to the scenarios that it can be useful. I only just found it after looking through some twitter posts about the tool! It's surprising how many people have tweeted about it actually :-) A useful read for any prospective user, and I thank the author for the write up.

It always pleases me to read about QuickHash in the blogs and articles written by other tech folks. Michael Bartholow does so in his article titled "Encrypting Emails for Google AdWords Customer Match". He recalls the story most familiar to many of us...the big corporate licensed tools like Excel and so on failing to do what we can achieve ourselves through open-source development. His blog describes using QuickHash for generating hash values suitable for injestion by Google AdWords. It's a pleasure to get such high praise. Makes you feel like your work is paying off. Perhaps not financially, but [...]

This evening I recorded a new video of QuickHash-GUI. The former video was a couple of years old now, and despite having quite a lot of views and comments, it showcased what was, in part, some redundant functionality that has since been improved or adjusted. The video is not designed as an authority on the program - merely to show users how they might use it and briefly explain some of the features more easily than reading it. However, the user manual is and always has been quite comprehensive and it details the programs features and strengths and is [...]

A quick utility I cobbled together may be of interest to any users who have involvement with the NSRL Hash Sets. The program is designed to take the original NSRL hash set as downloaded from the NIST website, and converts it to a single file containing just a column of hashes that you have asked for. The output file can then be injested directly into whatever tool or purpose you have a need for it. It saves a new output file that contains only the column of hashes you require, suitably formatted for immediate injestion into a digital forensic [...]

A really interesting article here regarding SHA-1 hash algorithm and collisions. MD5 collisions have been known for a long time, and SHA-1 collisions have theoretically been around for a while too, albeit engineered collisions as opposed to accidental ones. Because of that, NIST have not really endorsed SHA-1 for a few years although their hash databases still comprise their values (as they do for MD5, for that matter). So I don't think engineered collisions render the algorithm useless - certainly not for most daily tasks, but perhaps for security more so. The work was conducted following a long term [...]