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by alcover 2149 days ago
Holly... You're right. This will happen. To an over-arching state this is the ultimate modus.

  INSERT INTO Citizen(dob,ssn)
  VALUES 2030-10-28, sha(atgcaatgcatcgc..)
1 comments

hashing (sha) is not very appropriate since you're not likely to ever reproduce exactly the same base pair sequence for the same person.