How do I check a SHA512 hash on OS X?

[DesertFox]

Hello,

I would like to check the SHA512 hash of a file, but im not sure what the command is in terminal...

I know how to check md5 in terminal, but not SHA512. There is a utility for winblows which checks hashes called hashcalc; is there maybe something analogous for osx?

The SHA512 is suppose to produce a 128 characters string.

Thanks in advance!

[Mumford]

I have a perl script installed on my system as /usr/bin/shasum. I don't know if that's part of the standard OS install or some addon has later installed it. 'shasum -a 512' will get you what you need.

[jbz]

Hello,

I would like to check the SHA512 hash of a file, but im not sure what the command is in terminal...

I know how to check md5 in terminal, but not SHA512. There is a utility for winblows which checks hashes called hashcalc; is there maybe something analogous for osx?

The SHA512 is suppose to produce a 128 characters string.

Thanks in advance!

If you want a GUI you utility to do this you could use hashtab at http://www.beeblebrox.org/hashtab.

[ElectricSheep]

Try:


openssl dgst -sha512 <Path/to/file>


replacing <Path/to/file> with the relative or absolute path to the file you wish to digest.

[lantrix]

sha512 is not a valid digest for use in OpenSSL as shipped with Leopard (OpenSSL 0.9.7)

Read this on how to update: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/aczeskis/openssl.html