Release Announcements

v3.3.1 is out now! Don't get excited, folks! This is only a small update. The key changes are the column headers in CSV outputs had to be tweaked because Microsoft Excel gets confused by files that start with the value "ID". So I had to change it to "No" (shorthand for number). Secondly, and more importantly, the "Save to CSV" checkbox in the "Copy" tab was not working. It was still possible for the user to save the results by right clicking the grid and choosing "Save to CSV", but the automatic prompt to do so when clicking [...]

Folks, a user very helpfully reported to me that when hashing a large volume of files using the FileS tab and then choosing to save the results as HTML, Quickhash was crashing. I was confused about this at first because when I released v3.3.0 I made a lot of updates to memory handling and introduced more filestreams for large volumes of data. However, what I did not realise was that I had adjusted the database interaction to use .RecordCount, and the mistaken belief that gave me a count of all the records in a given table. However, it generally [...]

It's been just over a year since v3.1.0 was released, and during that time a number of feature requests and some minor bug reports have been submitted. Family and work life have meant that I wasn't able to action many of them as quickly as I would have liked, and consequently they accumulated into quite an endeavour of work. Well over the last few weeks, I managed to address many of them and am happy to report the release of v3.2.0 which, most notably, includes the Blake3 hash algorithm which was released earlier in 2020 and several people asked [...]

PDFCrack-GUI Updated to v1.2 A couple of years ago, I created a GUI for the very popular Linux command line PDF password breaking tool, 'PDFCrack', by Henning Noren. At that time, I was still using Sourceforge a bit, so it was hosted there and I pretty much forgot about it. Then the other day, I got a message from a user that reminded me it was still there. I visited and noticed the weekly downloads was around 40 per week! That was much more than I expected. But I guess for Linux users who need to gain access [...]

After several months, v3.1.0 is now available for Windows, Apple OSX and Linux (Debian based distributions) from the downloads section. Code signed executables are no longer available. There was insufficient demand from the previous code-signed version (0.4% of total downloads) and until that demand is made apparent to me, I won't be spending $500 on a new Digicert certificate. Of course, the hashes are available to verify the downloads. Update : HashLib4Pascal library updated to master version available as of 18th July 2019. New : Added SHA-3 (256) hash algorithm  New : Added Blake2B (256) hash algorithm (best on [...]

It's been a while since a new version of QuickHash was on the table. v3.0.4 has been fairly stable. There's been a few minor bug reports mostly relating to presentation aspects, but there's been a fair few feature suggestions that have had merit. I've been asked multiple times to include the BLAKE and SHA-3 hash algorithms, most notably. If I'm asked once or twice, that is one thing, but when it gets to double digits I figure I have to act! So v3.1.0 will feature BLAKE2b (256) which is a super fast algorithm and very secure. 2B is specifically [...]

v3.0.4 for Windows and OSX has been released this evening. I'll try to get the Linux version ready in the next few days. I just need to get it compiled and get the Debian packages made by my co-developer. Improvements are : The 'File' tab was not showing automatically when using drag and drop. Now it does. On Linux and OSX, the program will now automatically use default system wide SQLite libraries. This should reduce the risk of the program failing to load due to an SQLite file not being where it is expected to be. Reverted the "hash [...]