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Also known as: randomized filenames, hashed filenames
Filenames inside an obfuscated post replaced with random strings, so that an archive unpacks to items like a7f3b9c2.mkv rather than a recognizable title. The extension and container may also be stripped. Recovering the real name is the deobfuscation step, handled either by the indexer supplying it as metadata or by a post-processing tool inspecting the file itself.
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