CRC32 Sum

How to perform CRC32 sum of your string in Node.js, Ruby, Go/Golang and Bash.

Bash in Ubuntu 20.04

CRC32 sum is installed by default. To perform a CRC32 sum, run the following command.

a=`mktemp`;echo -n 'hello world'>$a;crc32 $a;rm $a

You should see the same output as below if it ran successfully.

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Ruby

The CRC32 digest gem is not included in Ruby. To install it, run the following command to install it.

sudo gem install digest-crc

Create a file crc32sum.rb and copy the contents below into the file.

require 'digest/crc32'
str = ARGV[0]
puts Digest::CRC32.hexdigest(str)

To test if the file is working, run the following command.

ruby crc32sum.rb 'hello world'

You should see the same output as below if it ran successfully.

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Node.js

Assuming you already have npm installed in your Ubuntu 20.04. You’ll need to install CRC package with the following command.

npm install crc

Once completed, create a file named crc32sum.js and copy the contents below into the file.

const { crc32 } = require('crc');
var str = process.argv[2];
console.log(crc32(str).toString(16));

Now to test if the crc32sum.js file is working. Run the command below.

node crc32sum.js 'hello world'

If it ran successfully, you should see the same output.

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Go/Golang

The imported package are all part of Go/Golang default installation. No additional package install with “go get” necessary. Create a file “crc32sum.go” and copy the contents below into the file.

package main
import (
  "os"
  "fmt"
  "hash/crc32"
)
const (
  // IEEE is by far and away the most common CRC-32 polynomial.
  // Used by ethernet (IEEE 802.3), v.42, fddi, gzip, zip, png, ...
  IEEE = 0xedb88320
  // Castagnoli's polynomial, used in iSCSI.
  // Has better error detection characteristics than IEEE.
  // https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/26.231911
  Castagnoli = 0x82f63b78
  // Koopman's polynomial.
  // Also has better error detection characteristics than IEEE.
  // https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2002.1028931
  Koopman = 0xeb31d82e
)
func main() {
  crc32q := crc32.MakeTable(IEEE)
  str := os.Args[1]
  fmt.Printf("%08x\n", crc32.Checksum([]byte(str), crc32q))
}

To test if the file is working, run the following command.

go run crc32sum.go 'hello world'

You should see the same output as below if it ran successfully.

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