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

 

[gloo8]

in terminal just type shasum -a512 then the filepath with spaces in between the command, -option and filepath (or just cd to the right folder first) type the first couple letters or few then hit tab to fill in the rest if the file name is long.
Example: shasum -a512 /Users/you/Downloads/fileyouwanttocheck.tar.gz