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<a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/hashing" target="_blank">Hashing</a> is a method of determining the equivalence of two chunks of data. A <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/cryptographic" target="_blank">cryptographic</a> hash function is an irreversible function that generates a unique string for any set of data. Examples of these data could be files, strings, streams, and any other items that can be represented in binary format.