| CPC G06F 21/6245 (2013.01) [G06F 16/2255 (2019.01); G06F 16/2365 (2019.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method of validating the contents of an electronic file, comprising:
requesting an electronic file by an application executing on a computer system by providing a multi-segment filename, wherein the multi-segment filename comprises a unique delimiter between each of the segments of the multi-segment filename and one of the segments of the multi-segment filename is a hash of a content of the electronic file referenced by the multi-segment filename;
receiving by the application the electronic file referenced by the multi-segment filename;
determining a hash over the content of the electronic file by the application;
comparing by the application the determined hash by the application to the hash of the content stored in the one of the segments of the multi-segment filename; and
based on the two hashes agreeing, opening by the application the contents of the electronic file for use.
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