Encrypt Example"

In deident: Persistent Data Anonymization Pipeline

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)

library(deident)

The most direct method of removing identifiability is via 'encryption' which comprises two processes:

1. The 'salting' of a string by appending a given, unknown string.
2. The 'hashing' of the resulting string via an encryption method e.g. MD5 or sha256.

This approach is implemented via the Encrypter methods (which uses the openssl::sha256 implementation by default):

name_pipe <- starwars |> 
  add_encrypt(name, hash_key = "hash123", seed="seed456")

apply_deident(starwars, name_pipe)

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