🔐 HashGard: Verify Your Files with Confidence

HashGard is a Python script that safeguards file integrity by comparing calculated hashes with expected values stored in signature files.

🎯 Key Features

• Calculates file hashes using various algorithms.
• Compares calculated hashes with signatures for verification.
• Provides clear messages indicating hash match/mismatch. ✔️ / ❌

🔧 Usage

1. Dependencies

Install required libraries using requirements.txt pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/Stanislas-GOTCH/hashguard.git && cd hashguard

3. Run the Script, Providing Arguments

• file: Path to the file for verification.
• signature: Path to the signature file containing the expected hash.
• algorithm: Hash algorithm to use.

Example

python hashgard.py my_file.iso my_file.sha256 sha256

This verifies the sha256 hash of my_file.iso against the hash stored in my_file.sha256.

Tip: Tab completion (if supported) can assist with file paths during argument input.

ℹ️ Help Flag (-h)

Use the -h or --help flag to view usage instructions and supported arguments.

🖥️ Cross-Platform Compatibility

HashGard is designed to work on most operating systems that support Python (either python or python3 depending on your system).

⚖️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License, a permissive open-source license that allows for free commercial and non-commercial use.