diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post_encrypt b/contrib/hooks/post_encrypt
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..bc4cbf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post_encrypt
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
+# Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Tim Byrne and Martin Zuther
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+YADM_CHECKSUMS="$YADM_HOOK_DIR/files.checksums"
+WARNING_MESSAGE="No checksums were created"
+
+# unpack exported array; filenames including a newline character (\n)
+# are NOT supported
+OLD_IFS="$IFS"
+IFS=$'\n'
+YADM_ENCRYPT_INCLUDE_FILES=( $YADM_ENCRYPT_INCLUDE_FILES )
+IFS="$OLD_IFS"
+
+
+function get_checksum_command {
+    # check if "shasum" exists and supports the algorithm (which is
+    # tested by sending an empty string to "shasum")
+    if command -v "shasum" > /dev/null && printf "" | shasum --algorithm "256" &> /dev/null; then
+        printf "shasum --algorithm 256"
+    # check if "sha256sum" exists
+    elif command -v "sha256sum" > /dev/null; then
+        printf "sha256sum"
+    # check if "gsha256sum" exists
+    elif command -v "gsha256sum" > /dev/null; then
+        printf "gsha256sum"
+    else
+        # display warning in bright yellow
+        printf "\033[1;33m" >&2
+        printf "\nWARNING: \"shasum\", \"sha256sum\" and \"gsha256sum\" not found.   %s\n" "$WARNING_MESSAGE." >&2
+
+        # reset output color
+        printf "\033[0m" >&2
+
+        # signal error
+        return 1
+    fi
+}
+
+
+# get checksum command
+CHECKSUM_COMMAND=$(get_checksum_command)
+
+# no command found
+if (($?)); then
+    # return original exit status of yadm command
+    exit "$YADM_HOOK_EXIT"
+fi
+
+# empty (or create) checksum file
+true > "$YADM_CHECKSUMS"
+
+# calculate checksums for encrypted files
+for included in "${YADM_ENCRYPT_INCLUDE_FILES[@]}"; do
+    # highlight any errors in red
+    printf "\033[0;31m"
+
+    # calculate checksums
+    $CHECKSUM_COMMAND "$included" >> "$YADM_CHECKSUMS"
+    ERROR_CODE=$?
+
+    # reset output color
+    printf "\033[0m"
+
+    # handle errors
+    if (($ERROR_CODE)); then
+        # display warning in bright yellow
+        printf "\033[1;33m" >&2
+        printf "\nWARNING: an error occurred.  Please inspect the checksum file.\n" >&2
+
+        # reset output color
+        printf "\033[0m" >&2
+
+        # exit and signal error
+        exit $ERROR_CODE
+    fi
+done
+
+# announce success and return original exit status of yadm command
+printf "Wrote SHA-256 checksums: %s\n" "$YADM_CHECKSUMS"
+exit "$YADM_HOOK_EXIT"
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post_list b/contrib/hooks/post_list
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b95acc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post_list
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
+# Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Tim Byrne and Martin Zuther
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+YADM_CHECKSUMS="$YADM_HOOK_DIR/files.checksums"
+
+
+# is current directory on yadm's work path?
+# (adapted from https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/6438/122163)
+if [ "${PWD##$YADM_HOOK_WORK}" != "$PWD" ]; then
+    ON_WORK_PATH=1
+else
+    ON_WORK_PATH=0
+fi
+
+
+# list all files or only those in the subdirectories below?
+OPTION_LIST_ALL=0
+for argument in "${YADM_HOOK_FULL_COMMAND[@]}"; do
+    # mimick git ls-files by displaying all files when not on work
+    # path
+    if [ "$argument" = "-a" ] || [ $ON_WORK_PATH -eq 0 ]; then
+        OPTION_LIST_ALL=1
+        break
+    fi
+done
+
+
+# if there is no checksum file, exit with original status of yadm
+# command
+if [ ! -f "$YADM_CHECKSUMS" ]; then
+    exit "$YADM_HOOK_EXIT"
+fi
+
+# list encrypted files
+while IFS= read -r filename; do
+    # remove checksums from file names
+    filename="${filename##[a-zA-Z0-9]* }"
+
+    # list only files in the subdirectories below (i.e. files
+    # whose relative path doesn't begin with "../")
+    if [ $OPTION_LIST_ALL -eq 0 ]; then
+        REL_PATH=$(relative_path "$PWD" "$YADM_HOOK_WORK/$filename")
+
+        if [ "$REL_PATH" = "${REL_PATH##../}" ]; then
+            printf "%s\n" "$REL_PATH"
+        fi
+    # list all files
+    else
+        printf "%s\n" "$filename"
+    fi
+done < "$YADM_CHECKSUMS"
+
+# return original exit status of yadm command
+exit "$YADM_HOOK_EXIT"
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post_status b/contrib/hooks/post_status
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3dd0465
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post_status
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
+# Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Tim Byrne and Martin Zuther
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+YADM_CHECKSUMS="$YADM_HOOK_DIR/files.checksums"
+WARNING_MESSAGE="Checksums were not verified"
+
+# unpack exported array; filenames including a newline character (\n)
+# are NOT supported
+OLD_IFS="$IFS"
+IFS=$'\n'
+YADM_ENCRYPT_INCLUDE_FILES=( $YADM_ENCRYPT_INCLUDE_FILES )
+IFS="$OLD_IFS"
+
+
+function get_checksum_command {
+    # check if "shasum" exists and supports the algorithm (which is
+    # tested by sending an empty string to "shasum")
+    if command -v "shasum" > /dev/null && printf "" | shasum --algorithm "256" &> /dev/null; then
+        printf "shasum --algorithm 256"
+    # check if "sha256sum" exists
+    elif command -v "sha256sum" > /dev/null; then
+        printf "sha256sum"
+    # check if "gsha256sum" exists
+    elif command -v "gsha256sum" > /dev/null; then
+        printf "gsha256sum"
+    else
+        # display warning in bright yellow
+        printf "\033[1;33m" >&2
+        printf "\nWARNING: \"shasum\", \"sha256sum\" and \"gsha256sum\" not found.   %s\n" "$WARNING_MESSAGE." >&2
+
+        # reset output color
+        printf "\033[0m" >&2
+
+        # signal error
+        return 1
+    fi
+}
+
+
+# if there is no checksum file, exit with original status of yadm
+# command
+if [ ! -f "$YADM_CHECKSUMS" ]; then
+    exit "$YADM_HOOK_EXIT"
+fi
+
+# get checksum command
+CHECKSUM_COMMAND=$(get_checksum_command)
+
+# no command found
+if (($?)); then
+    # return original exit status of yadm command
+    exit "$YADM_HOOK_EXIT"
+fi
+
+# check encrypted files for differences and capture output and error
+# messages
+YADM_CHECKSUM_OUTPUT=$($CHECKSUM_COMMAND --check "$YADM_CHECKSUMS" 2>&1)
+ERROR_CODE=$?
+
+# handle mismatched checksums and errors
+if (($ERROR_CODE)); then
+    printf "\nSome SHA-256 sums do not match (or an error occurred):\n\n"
+
+    # display differing files and errors (highlighted in red)
+    printf "\033[0;31m"
+
+    while IFS= read -r line; do
+        # beautify output and get rid of unnecessary lines
+        line="${line%%*: [Oo][Kk]}"
+        line="${line%%: [Ff][Aa][Ii][Ll][Ee][Dd]}"
+        line="${line##*WARNING:*did NOT match}"
+
+        if [ -n "$line" ]; then
+            printf "%s\n" "$line"
+        fi
+    done <<< "$YADM_CHECKSUM_OUTPUT"
+
+    # reset output color
+    printf "\033[0m"
+
+    # display advice for differing files and signal error
+    printf "\nConsider running either \"yadm encrypt\" or \"yadm decrypt\".\n"
+    exit $ERROR_CODE
+fi
diff --git a/yadm b/yadm
index b8f42fd..f164b16 100755
--- a/yadm
+++ b/yadm
@@ -1573,15 +1573,29 @@ function invoke_hook() {
 
     # expose some internal data to all hooks
     YADM_HOOK_COMMAND=$HOOK_COMMAND
+    YADM_HOOK_DIR=$YADM_DIR
     YADM_HOOK_EXIT=$exit_status
     YADM_HOOK_FULL_COMMAND=$FULL_COMMAND
     YADM_HOOK_REPO=$YADM_REPO
     YADM_HOOK_WORK=$YADM_WORK
+
+    # pack array to export it; filenames including a newline character (\n)
+    # are NOT supported
+    YADM_ENCRYPT_INCLUDE_FILES=$(join_string $'\n' "${ENCRYPT_INCLUDE_FILES[@]}")
+
     export YADM_HOOK_COMMAND
+    export YADM_HOOK_DIR
     export YADM_HOOK_EXIT
     export YADM_HOOK_FULL_COMMAND
     export YADM_HOOK_REPO
     export YADM_HOOK_WORK
+    export YADM_ENCRYPT_INCLUDE_FILES
+
+    # export helper functions
+    export -f builtin_dirname
+    export -f relative_path
+    export -f unix_path
+    export -f mixed_path
 
     "$hook_command"
     hook_status=$?
@@ -1819,6 +1833,13 @@ function auto_bootstrap() {
 
 }
 
+# ****** Helper Functions ******
+
+function join_string {
+    local IFS="$1"
+    printf "%s" "${*:2}"
+}
+
 # ****** Prerequisites Functions ******
 
 function require_archive() {
@@ -1886,7 +1907,7 @@ function readlink_available() {
   return 1
 }
 
-# ****** Directory tranlations ******
+# ****** Directory translations ******
 
 function unix_path() {
   # for paths used by bash/yadm
@@ -1906,6 +1927,7 @@ function mixed_path() {
 }
 
 # ****** echo replacements ******
+
 function echo() {
   IFS=' '
   printf '%s\n' "$*"