![]() This concept applies to Payday 2 as a large part of the assets use hash representations of the path, language and extension for defining and referencing files. Often this is used to verify that the data you have downloaded hasn’t been corrupted or tampered with. A common form of this comes as an md5 checksum which we actually use here on the site. ![]() ![]() Hashing is the process of taking a piece of data, such as a file or a series of characters (string) and creating a mathematically unique number representation of that data which is irreversible. The focus is around the concept of ‘hashing’, you can find a video explaining this here. The concept is pretty straightforward and comes up frequently in computing. The word ‘hashlist’ has come up a lot recently, but most people don’t know much about it apart from ‘we need it for modding’.
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