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Posts Tagged ‘1018’

Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/18

I don’t have words to describe how cool this tool is: [Wayback/Archive] Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language:

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Note for future self if .NET hash calculations from `ComputeHash()` are slower than expected

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/26

Normally when calculating hashes in .NET you use the [Wayback/Archive] HashAlgorithm.ComputeHash Method (System.Security.Cryptography) | Microsoft Learn.

This can be slow as [Wayback/Archive] cmcginty showed while answering the question [Wayback/Archive] How to get an MD5 checksum in PowerShell – Stack Overflow by [Wayback/Archive] Luke101 posing a faster solution (in this case for md5, but it can be generalised):

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