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st: encrypt an ID
From
Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
st: encrypt an ID
Date
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:05:02 -0400
This has come up before in the archives, but the
answer has not, so worth trying again.
I have a dataset with individuals who have 9 digit
numeric identifiers. I need to encrypt these identifiers
uniquely (ie, in a way that I can unencrypt them later
if needed). The encrypted key can be numeric or string.
I can do something silly like move the digits around
according to some pattern I invent, but would be nice if
there were something more robust available - is there?
If not existing Stata code, maybe an existing alogorithm
that isn't too difficult to implement?
cheers,
Jeph
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