What users are saying about digestIT 2004

"I've found this little piece of software a real gem."
-- Lazlo W.

"Incredibly simple!"
-- Download.com user cykl0n

"I've been using digestIT for a while &just wanted to say thanks. It's very easy to use."
-- Anthony B., OpenOffice.org

"I love the way DigestIT is integrated with the pull down menu on files."
-- Howard V., Novell, Inc.

"It [sic] like it because it does MD5 and SHA-1 hashs and integrates into Windows as a right-click context menu."
-- Roger Grimes, InfoWorld.com

MD5 for Win32 introduced the "right-click and hash" interface to calculate a message digest without having to open a separate program. digestIT 2003 took it further by adding multiple file support, integrated copying and saving, and support for the SHA-1 message digest algorithm.

Introduce digestIT 2004, taking digestIT 2003 one step further by adding integrated verification support right in the same easy-to-use interface.

Download digestIT 2004: 32-bit (x86) -- 64-bit (x64)

Download MD5 for Win32 (early version of digestIT 2004)

Features

  • Integrates itself into Windows Explorer
  • Simple right-click interface
  • Multiple file support
  • Quickly verify a MD5 or SHA-1 hash
  • Save to file or copy to clipboard
  • Native support for 64-bit Windows (x64 Editions)

Sightings

  • digestIT 2004 is recommended by the author of PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid for checking hash signatures. On page 55 of the book, he says:

    "GnuPG makes a Windows checksum calculator freely available on www.gnupg.org, but it's not as full featured as I would prefer. I like DigestIT 2004, a freeware program that integrates nicely into the Windows desktop."

  • digestIT 2004 is recommended by Netflix for use in their contest about predicting customer preferences for movies. It's in the FAQ .
  • digestIT 2004 has been used by both SuSE and Novell, and has also been used by the Computer Crime Unit of the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation.
  • digestIT 2003 was featured in a graduate-level lecture at Walsh College in Troy, Michigan. It was used as part of a lecture on hash algorithms by adjunct instructor Paul Howell for an assignment on the MD5 algorithm.

Known Issues

The only issue of which users need to be aware is what is called the "2GB limitation". What this means is that the progress indicator will not properly display the file size and processing progress of files that are 2GB or larger in size. However, the final result displayed for such a file will still be correct.