Hash Generator

Q: Why does my hash not match the one from the command line?

Most often a line ending is the difference. Commands like echo add a newline to the end, and text copied from Windows may carry carriage returns. The text box hashes exactly the characters it holds, encoded as UTF-8, so check for a trailing newline or hash the file itself on the File tab.

Text to hash

Type or paste text. It is hashed as UTF-8 as you type.

MD5

SHA-1

SHA-256

SHA-512

Quick facts

Price: Free
Sign-up: Not required
Where it runs: On your device
Files uploaded: No
Limits: Up to 50 MB per input; Up to 1 file at once
Updated: September 30, 2026

Hash Generator computes the MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashes of any text or file, all four at once, in lowercase hex. It is for developers, system administrators and anyone who downloads software and wants to check a published checksum, compare two files without opening them, or produce a fingerprint for a test fixture. Seeing the four digests side by side saves running four commands when you do not know which algorithm a vendor used.

How to use

Choose the Text tab or the File tab at the top of the workspace.
On the Text tab, type or paste into the box. The four hashes change with every keystroke, so you can watch a single added space alter every digest completely.
On the File tab, drop one file on the drop zone, or click it to browse. A progress bar shows how much of the file has been read; the hashes appear when it reaches the end.
Press Copy next to any hash to put that digest on your clipboard, then paste it wherever you compare checksums.
Press Clear to empty the text, or Remove file to start over with another file.

Examples

Typing the five letters hello gives:

MD5      5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592
SHA-1    aaf4c61ddcc5e8a2dabede0f3b482cd9aea9434d
SHA-256  2cf24dba5fb0a30e26e83b2ac5b9e29e1b161e5c1fa7425e73043362938b9824

The SHA-512 digest of the same word is 128 hex characters long, starting with 9b71d224bd62f378. Notice how sensitive a hash is: Hello with a capital H gives the MD5 8b1a9953c4611296a827abf8c47804d7, which shares nothing visible with the first. Adding a line break after hello changes the MD5 to b1946ac92492d2347c6235b4d2611184, the value the command echo hello | md5sum prints on Linux.

Limits

A text or a file can be at most 50 MB, and the File tab takes one file at a time. The whole file is held in memory while the SHA digests are computed, so a phone with little free memory may struggle near that limit. Output is always lowercase hexadecimal; there is no Base64 or uppercase form. It does not compute keyed hashes such as HMAC, and it has no SHA-3, BLAKE or CRC32.

FAQ

Is my file uploaded to a server?

No. The page reads the file in your browser, a few megabytes at a time, and computes every digest there. Copy writes only to your own clipboard, and closing the tab discards everything.

Why does my hash not match the one from the command line?

Most often a line ending is the difference. Commands like echo add a newline to the end, and text copied from Windows may carry carriage returns. The text box hashes exactly the characters it holds, encoded as UTF-8, so check for a trailing newline or hash the file itself on the File tab.

Is MD5 or SHA-1 safe to use?

Neither is safe where an attacker could craft a collision, such as digital signatures or certificates, because practical collisions are known for both. They still work for spotting accidental corruption in a download. Prefer SHA-256 or SHA-512 for anything security-related.

Can I use this to store passwords?

No. Plain MD5 and SHA hashes are fast to compute, which makes guessing passwords against them cheap. Store passwords with a slow, salted function designed for the job, such as Argon2, scrypt or bcrypt.

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