Compromising the Security of “Generating Unique identifiers from Patient Identification Data Using Security Models”
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Sir, I write with respect to the Technical Note “Generating unique identifiers (IDs) from patient identification data using security models,”[1] the authors of which propose a method to “create a unique one‐way encrypted ID per patient that can be used for data sharing.” In summary, their method involves concatenation of a patient’s date of birth, sex, and surname, utilizing either the MD5 or SHA‐1 cryptographic hash of this value as the record ID.
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