"md5" rings no bells with me, so I bow out of this one.
But the Mata route has advantages for you that were explained
by Bill Gould last month.
Nick
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Hendri Adriaens
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> > I am sure Stata can do it, especially as all you want is
> > to anonymise a single variable.
> >
> > All you need to tell us is what code (cryptography sense)
> > you want to use. On the other hand, if this really is to be
> > secret, note that two thousand people are watching and that
> > you have no information on my security credentials.
>
> :) That's why I would like to anonimize it with a one way
> function, like md5
> more or less is. (I know that it's possible nowadays to
> create source texts
> that produce the same md5 hash, but no guarantee that this source is
> actually the cleartext.) All I need is that the same input
> will create the
> same output. The inputs are strings btw.
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