This document provides instructions for a cryptography lab focusing on basic data encryption using HashCalc. The lab objectives are to use encrypting/decrypting commands and generate hashes and checksum files. HashCalc allows calculating multiple hashes, checksums, and HMACs for files, text, and hex strings using algorithms such as MD2, MD4, SHA1, SHA2 and more. The lab environment involves using the HashCalc tool located in the specified folder on a Windows Server 2012 computer with administrative privileges to run the tools. The time estimated for the lab is 10 minutes.