CHK Hash Tool
Description
CHK is an advanced hash tool — a simple application designed to help you verify the integrity of your files, find duplicates and much more!
Main Features
Verify the integrity of downloaded/transferred files.
Find and get rid of duplicate files on your computer.
Support for all the hashes you'll ever need, including CRC-32, MD5, SHA1, BLAKE3 , xxHash3-64 and much more!
Quick check the Zstandard Compression Ratio and Shannon Entropy of any file.
Simple interface with full Unicode and Drag&Drop support.
It's portable - run anywhere without any installation.
And last but not least - it's FREE!
Downloads
Program
Size
BLAKE2s-128
CHK v5.52 Win64 Portable
2.22 MB
C92F55EDB6BDF0B3E7E72C0B7A240AF5
CHK v5.52 Win32 Portable
1.54 MB
055CDC88A400F7811D341D458E2ACA4D
Language Packs (Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish)
13 KB
F9ED59B2826CB2245DD542516CF87C3D
Instructions: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch chk.exe .
Data Compression Software
Selection of my proprietary software:
Program
Description
Used Algorithm(s)
Release Date
User Interface
BCM v2.03
The ultimate BWT-based file compressor
BWT+CM, preprocessing
2023-02-27
Command line
ULZ v1.02 BETA
An ultra-fast LZ77 compressor
LZ77
2021-03-14
Command line
LZPM v0.18
A highly asymmetric LZ77-based file compressor with Optimal Parsing
LZ77+ARI
2020-08-20
Command line
SQUID v0.03
A fast LZP-based file compressor
LZP+ARI
2018-10-03
Command line
PPMX v0.09
Original, small and fast PPM implementation
PPM
2014-03-24
Command line
BIM v0.03
A high performance lossless image compressor. Currently BIM supports 24-bit BMP, TGA and PNM/PPM images
LPC+CM
2013-09-13
Command line
PIM v2.90
A fully-featured file archiver with smart
algorithm selection. In addition, PIM supports extraction for ZIP, JAR, QUAKE
PAK, PK3, PK4, QUAD and BALZ archives
PPMD, BALZ, BZIP2, preprocessing
2009-01-01
Graphic
PIMPLE v1.43
Quite old, but extremely powerful compressor with many options to play with
LZP+CM, preprocessing
2006-04-24
Graphic
My open source projects:
CRUSH — An LZ77-based file compressor (Public Domain, 2013)
BALZ — A ROLZ-based file compressor (Public Domain, 2008)
QUAD — A ROLZ-based file compressor (LGPL, 2007)
LZPX — An LZP-based file compressor (GPL, 2005)
Benchmarks
Contact
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