pchaigno / node-ssdeep

Node.js wrapper for the ssdeep fuzzy hashing library

ssdeep

Node.js wrapper for the ssdeep fuzzy hashing library.

Installation

You will need libfuzzy installed. All major Linux distributions have it available as a package:

sudo apt-get install libfuzzy-dev

You can also install it from sources.

Then, install the Node.js wrapper:

npm install ssdeep

Examples

To compute a fuzzy hash:

var hash = ssdeep.hash('text to hash');

To compute the fuzzy hash of a file:

var hash = ssdeep.hash_from_file('file_to_hash.txt');

To compare two fuzzy hashes:

var score = ssdeep.compare(hash1, hash2);

License

This package is under MIT license.