Practical 11.1 Installing hash generators and comparing hashes

Ok....... to get your hash generators; first, go to md5deep.sourceforge.net >>>>>
(If the URL does not work, go to any search engines and search for "MD5DEEP")

When you reach the website.. click on the Download md5deep button and you should see the same webpage as the following screenshot...
Remember to choose the correct download for your OS, in this case I will be using windows therefore, I will be downloading the Windows binary as indicated in the screenshot above with the red oval^^^

For this program... I would really suggest that you download it into an easily accessible place cause to access this program you will be using the command prompt..... It would really make it easier to navigate to the program.........

Ok... After downloading the file, locate it and extract its contents...........After extracting, create a Word document & save it in the file with all the extracted contents as shown in the screenshot below~~~~

After all that preparation is done, go to your Start menu and search for your command prompt program or type cmd into the search box....And then run it.....

Using your command prompt, navigate through your system till you reach the extracted file......This might take sometime if you did not safe it in an easily accessible place~~~~

So...... after you have reach the extracted file.... type in the command MD5DEEP .docx and press Enter. A line of letters and numbers should appear-that is your hash value......

Now we should have another example,,, so,,,, type in the command MD5DEEP MD5DEEP.TXT , this command will show you the hash value of the file "MD5DEEP.txt"..... This is shown in the next screenshot......

What difference can you see between these 2 hashes?????

Well we should have another example... Open the Word document you have created and remove the period at the end of the sentence and save the file with another name(e.g your original document ends with bla bla bla. ,your edited document should be like bla bla bla)

Now type in the command MD5DEEP .docx....

What differences do you see between the hash of your original Word document & the hash of your edited Word document?????

Well there you have it..........You can also test out the different hash generators SHA-1(sha1deep), SHA-256(sha256deep) & Whirlpool(whirlpooldeep)..... By typing in their respective commands stated in the brackets followed by the document's name plus '.'...................

REFLECTIONS!!!!!!!!
The length of the hash generated by MD5DEEP is 32....I have also found out that the MD5 hash is quite strong as it has a fixed length and its hash does not repeat........I have also noticed that the hashes does not contains any alphabets between 'g' to 'z',,,, this is because the hashes are represented by the hexadecimal number system......