Andrew Ho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave, what are the well-known methods of keeping the identifiers secure > after they are separated? Tim Churches recently reviewed some of them in > his paper. As far as Tim and I understand them, they do not use SDSS.
Nope, I never said that. In fact, I think that the methods described for the German cancer registries are very nearly identical to SDSS (but pre-date it). > > > I wouldn't even consider it publishable let alone patentable. > > Maybe I just got lucky? Maybe Tim Churches got lucky too? He also > succeeded in getting his paper published. :-) I think Andrew's papers on SDSS were definitely publishable, and useful. I just think they should have reviewed and acknowledged related previous work a bit more thoroughly than they did. Tim C
