rahash2 - Block-Based Hashing, Encoding, and Encryption Utility

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NAME

rahash2 — Block-Based Hashing, Encoding, and Encryption Utility

SYNOPSIS

rahash2 [−BehjkLqrvX] [−b S] [−a A] [−c H] [−E A] [−D A] [−s S] [−f O] [−t O] [−i num] [−I iv] [−S seed] [−x hexstr] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

A utility for computing, verifying, and displaying hash values for each block of a file, with a default block size of 32768 bytes. Reads from standard input using ’-’ and supports comparison against known hashes via exit status codes.

Commonly used for forensic analysis, detecting file modifications, and efficient processing of large files.

Supports entropy calculation, targeted hashing of file segments or strings, and encoding, decoding, encryption, and decryption using various cryptographic algorithms.

−a algo

Comma separated list of algorithms (default is ’sha256’)

−b bsize

Specify the size of the block (instead of full file)

−B

Show per-block hash

−c hash

Compare with this hash

−e

Swap endian (use little endian)

−E algo

Encrypt. Use -S to set key and -I to set IV

−D algo

Decrypt. Use -S to set key and -I to set IV

−f from

Start hashing at given address

−i num

Repeat hash N iterations (f.ex: 3DES)

−I iv

Use give initialization vector (IV) (hexa or s:string)

−j

Output in json

−J

New simplified json output (same as -jj)

−S seed

Use given seed (hexa or s:string) use ˆ to prefix (key for -E) (- will slurp the key from stdin, the @ prefix points to a file

−k

Show hash using the openssh’s randomkey algorithm

−q

Run in quiet mode (-qq to show only the hash)

−L

List muta plugins (combines with -q, used by -a, -E and -D)

−r

Output radare commands

−s string

Hash this string instead of files

−t to

Stop hashing at given address

−x hexstr

Hash this hexpair string instead of files

−X

Output in hexpairs instead of binary/plain

−v

Show version information

ENVIRONMENT

Rahash2 does not use any environment variables.

EXAMPLES

Calculate the MD5 hash of the ’ls’ binary:

$ rahash2 -qqa md5 /bin/ls

Calculate the SHA256 hash of string from stdin:

$ echo -n "Hello, World" | rahash2 -a sha256 -
$ rahash2 -a sha256 -s "Hello, World"

Compare CRC32 of the given file didnt changed:

$ rahash2 -qqa crc32 /bin/ls
63212007
$ rahash2 -a crc32 -c 63212007 /bin/ls
INFO: Computed hash matches the expected one
$ echo $?
0

List all muta (hash, crypto, encoder, charset) plugins:

$ rahash2 -L

Encode the string "Hello World" with base64:

$ rahash2 -E base64 -s "Hello World"

Calculate SHA256 hash of a specific part of a file:

$ rahash2 -qqa sha256 -f 0x1000 -t 0x2000 file_to_hash

Encrypt and decrypt the "hello" string using the ror and rol plugins:

$ rahash2 -S 12333 -E ror -s hello && echo
Cell{
$ rahash2 -S 12333 -E rol -s Cell{ && echo
hello

Encrypting and decrypting using AES-CBC:

$ export AES_KEY="11111111111111111111111111113211"
$ rahash2 -E aes-ecb -S "$AES_KEY" -s "hello world you bastard" > .file
$ cat .file | rahash2 -D aes-ecb -S "$AES_KEY" -s - && echo

Encrypting a file using Blowfish and encode it into a json:

$ rahash2 -E blowfish -S "11111111111111111111111111113211" -j /bin/ls > ls.json

DIAGNOSTICS

The rahash2 utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

When using the -c flag, an exit status of 0 indicates a match between the expected and computed hashes.

SEE ALSO

radare2(1)

AUTHORS

pancake <[email protected]> Jul 10, 2025 RAHASH2(1)

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