When data are moved across a network the recipient might require a verification to ensure that data have not been modified after send. For example, in a client/server scenario where a client application sends some updates to a remote database via a web service, the web service might need to verify that data have not been modified while travelling across the network, either due to corruption or because somebody changed them. A simple way to implement such kind of verification is utilizing hashing.

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