generate_short_uuid

Internal function to generate short, reproducible UUIDs for anonymization.
Uses a hash-based approach to ensure referential integrity (same input
always produces same UUID) while maintaining uniqueness across datasets.

internal

Tools for anonymizing sensitive patient and research data. Helps
protect privacy while keeping data useful for analysis. Anonymizes IDs,
names, dates, locations, and ages while maintaining referential integrity.
Methods based on: Sweeney (2002) <doi:10.1142/S0218488502001648>,
Dwork et al. (2006) <doi:10.1007/11681878_14>,
El Emam et al. (2011) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028071>,
Fung et al. (2010) <doi:10.1145/1749603.1749605>.

Vikrant Dev Rathore

privacyR

Privacy-Preserving Data Anonymization

generate_short_uuid function

<dl><dt>x</dt>
<dd>Character vector of values to anonymize</dd>
<dt>prefix</dt>
<dd>Optional prefix for the UUID (default: NULL)</dd>
<dt>seed</dt>
<dd>Dataset-specific seed for reproducibility</dd>
<dt>length</dt>
<dd>Length of the random part (default: 8)</dd></dl>

Arguments

Generate Short UUID for Anonymization — generate_short_uuid

<dl>

<dt>x</dt>
<dd>Character vector of values to anonymize</dd>


<dt>prefix</dt>
<dd>Optional prefix for the UUID (default: NULL)</dd>


<dt>seed</dt>
<dd>Dataset-specific seed for reproducibility</dd>


<dt>length</dt>
<dd>Length of the random part (default: 8)</dd>

</dl>

generate_short_uuid: Generate Short UUID for Anonymization

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