# QRL File Tools

> Command-line tools for post-quantum file signing, signature verification, public-key extraction, hashing, and salt generation using FIPS 204 ML-DSA-87 or legacy Dilithium signatures.

- Canonical page: [QRL File Tools](https://www.qrlecosystem.com/projects/qrl-file-tools/)
- Status: Beta
- Type: Tooling (`tooling`)
- Primary category: Security, custody & account management (`security-custody-account-management`)
- Secondary categories: Developer experience
- Capabilities: CLI tools
- QRL relationship: Native
- QRL support: QRL 2.0
- Publisher: [The QRL](https://www.qrlecosystem.com/publishers/the-qrl/index.html.md)
- Source availability: Full
- Listed: 2026-08-17
- Data updated: 2026-08-17
- Search keywords: cli, file-signing, mldsa, hashing

## Project links

- [Website](https://github.com/theQRL/qrlft)


## Repositories

- [Tooling repository](https://github.com/theQRL/qrlft) — license: NOASSERTION


## Features

- ML-DSA-87 and Dilithium file or string signing
- Detached signature verification and public-key extraction
- SHA-3, SHA-2, Keccak, and BLAKE2 hashing
- Secure key-file permissions and application-specific signing contexts