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A quick utility I cobbled together may be of interest to any users who have involvement with the NSRL Hash Sets. The program is designed to take the original NSRL hash set as downloaded from the NIST website, and converts it to a single file containing just a column of hashes that you have asked for. The output file can then be injested directly into whatever tool or purpose you have a need for it. It saves a new output file that contains only the column of hashes you require, suitably formatted for immediate injestion into a digital forensic [...]

A really interesting article here regarding SHA-1 hash algorithm and collisions. MD5 collisions have been known for a long time, and SHA-1 collisions have theoretically been around for a while too, albeit engineered collisions as opposed to accidental ones. Because of that, NIST have not really endorsed SHA-1 for a few years although their hash databases still comprise their values (as they do for MD5, for that matter). So I don't think engineered collisions render the algorithm useless - certainly not for most daily tasks, but perhaps for security more so. The work was conducted following a long term [...]

Thanks to Dareal Shinji (https://github.com/darealshinji) a Debian package for QuickHash is available and if accepted by Debian package moderators, available as part of the Debian distribution (it has not been submitted, yet)! We still need to get it all polished and make a few teaks to the paperwork before submitting it but once that's done, hopefully later in 2017 it will be ready for submission. In the meantime, you can download a deb package here :  https://13.221.33.129/download/debian-package-v2-7-0-for-linux/