I am pleased to announce that Jacksum 3 has been released!
Jacksum 3 is a major release. I call it the "good things will take time" release ;-)
See also https://jacksum.net
Detailed release notes at https://jacksum.net/en/release-notes.html
Here is an eagle view comparison chart with Jacksum 1.7.0. There was never an official Jacksum 2 release and I lifted the version number immediately to 3 due to the feature richness of Jacksum 3.
| Jacksum 1.7.0 |
Jacksum 3.0.0 | |
|---|---|---|
Algorithm support |
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| Supported Algorithms (including different lengths) | 58 | 470 |
| Default algorithm | SHA-1 | SHA-3-256 |
| Full SHA-3 family support | no | yes |
| Full SHA-2 family support | no*1 | yes |
| Full BLAKE-family support | no | almost*2 |
| Full FNV-familiy support*3 |
no | yes |
| Customizable CRCs |
yes | yes |
| Modern non-US modern national standards*4 | no | yes |
| Older non-US national standards*5 | yes | yes |
| All algos from round three of the NIST SHA-3 competition*6 |
no | yes |
| proposals from the NIST crypto workshops*7 |
no | yes |
| eXtendable Output Functions (XOF) as cryptographic hash functions*8 |
no | yes |
Multi core/processor support |
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| multiple algorithms calculation |
yes*9 | yes |
| multiple algorithms calculation simultanously | no | yes |
| parallel hash calculation for files | no | yes |
| multi processor support for checking files | no | yes |
Other highlights |
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| Finding an algorithm/CRC by knowing both data and hash |
no | yes |
| Select algorithms that match a bit width or a search string |
no | yes |
| producing the output in a format you want |
yes | yes |
| checking an output produced by a foreign software using parser definitions |
no | yes |
| License |
GPLv2+ | GPLv3+ |
*1 SHA-512/224, SHA-512/256 were missing, because those algos were introduced in March 2012.
*2 BLAKE-[224,384,256,512], BLAKE2s-[8..256/8], BLAKE2b-[8..512/8], and BLAKE3 are supported; BLAKE2sp and BLAKE2bp are not yet supported
*3 including FNV-0, FNV-1, and FNV-1a for all bit lengths [32,64,128,256,512,1024]*4 Streebog-[256,512] (Russia, GOST R 34.11-2012); SM3 (China); Kupyna[256,384,512] (Ukraine, DSTU 7564:2014); LSH-256-[224,256], LSH-512-[224,256,384,512] (South Korea, KS X 3262)
*5 GOST, GOST Crypto-Pro (Russia, GOST R 34.11-94); HAS-160 (KISA, South Korea)
*6 all five candidates from round 3 the NIST SHA-3 competition were BLAKE, Groestl, JH, Keccak, and Skein
*7 before the SHA-3 competition they were proposals from the NIST crypto workshops called FORK-256, DHA-256, and VSH-1024
*8 SHAKE128, SHAKE256, KangarooTwelve, MarsupilamiFourteen
*9 while a file is read only once if multiple algorithms have been selected, the actual hash calculation occurred sequentially and not in parallel
