Release notes

Improved:

• Ensures full compatibility with Windows 10, both 32 and 64-bit versions.

New:

• Added support for BSD format checksum files.
• Option to toggle between lowercase and uppercase.

Improved:

• In Windows classic theme hashes are also highlighted.
• Start menu rearanged. Some items removed.
• Improved installation experience.

Fixed:

• Tooltips are always shown above all other windows.

New:

• Auto compare the computed hashes against hash files, such as .md5, .crc, .sha, .sha1 and others.
• Real-time (on the fly) highlight of computed hashes against Windows Clipboard.
• Compact and Full layout (toggle via Show more hashes or Show less hashes).

Changed:

• Some hashes (MD and RIPEMD hash functions) are moved to More menu.

Improved:

• Redesigned layout to allow entire hashes to be shown for two most popular hash functions: MD5 and SHA-1.
• To avoid confusion, upon selecting another file for hashing, previous hashes are cleared.
• Some web resources (release notes, test vectors) are added to More menu.
• Hash .dll file is now digitally signed.
• Minor improvements.

Fixed:

• Duplicate shortcut keys has been removed.

Improved:

• Installer is now digitally signed with Authenticode ensuring the code authenticity upon installation of the software.

New:

• Unicode support for folder and file names.
• Average hashing speed is now displayed.

Changed:

• Installer includes both x86 and x64 versions in a single (.exe or .zip) setup file. Separate 32 and 64-bit versions still available as .msi installers.
• Hash & CRC now requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher.
• Whirlpool hash function now uses Whirlpool version 3.
• If no hash function is selected, Compute is replaced with Just Read button which allows caching files into memory.
• If no values are calculated, Copy button is disabled.
• Hash & CRC tab title text changed to Hash / CRC due alignment bug in Windows 7.
• Link color modified to match Windows 7 theme.

Improved:

• Improved calculation speed for some hash functions.
• Navigating with keyboard Tab button now skips fields without hash values.
• Improved button focusing. Default focus on Compute button.
• New setup and uninstall icons for better appearance in Windows.
• Hash & CRC now supports High DPI in Windows 7.
• Multiple file icon updated.

Fixed:

• After selecting both file and folder and selecting Hash / CRC tab resulted in false error message.
• Minor resource leaking bug removed.

Features:

• Support of popular cryptographic hash checksums - CRC32, MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, RIPEMD-256, RIPEMD-320, WHIRLPOOL and Tiger-192.
• Fast checksum computation.
• File integrity checksum calculation for large, virtually unlimited, file sizes.
• Simultaneous different checksum type calculation.
• Single or multiple hash value copy to clipboard (uppercase support).
• Simple and easy to use interface.

Credit:

• Based on Crypto++ Library by Wei Dai.