-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/06 11:26, Scott Ribe wrote: >> Bottom line: check digits are in SSNs > > Uhm, no they're not. And this is of course one of the huge problems with > SSNs. (Although not quite as bad as the fact that they're not strictly > unique. Yes, really, duplicates have been issued in the past.) Hmm, you're right. Other kinds of important numbers have check digits, though. http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~cssem/DickOct18.pdf - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFay20S9HxQb37XmcRAvh/AJ9q2mgWBGCgR7/IY2lB2TJVheq/DwCgiJkP MLhLb6Au0HOL3Iruk0ZrCSk= =vGcr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
