Social Security Number Code Cracked, Study Claims

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To simplify what I wrote in the first article: With the specifically designed random number generator, you insert your social security number as the seed number, then use your birthday as the nth number; the resulting number is your unique equivalent social security number that no one can predict. If the government used this technique, then a crook could never figure out what your social security number means to the social security administration. It wouldn't matter if someone else knew your number because of the unique output of the specially designed random number generator. This could prevent identity theft.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY 6:48PM September 05, 2009

Random number generators are not so random; for example, on a specifically designed random number generator, the first, second, third random number up to the nth random number is always the same if you feed in the same "Seed" number. SO by having a specially designed random number generator, you can feed in a person's social security number as the "Seed" number and the 5th, or nth number will be unique to the Seed Social Security Number. This resulting output number can be used to verify and confuse a crook because the nth number can be changed weekly, daily or whatever. So if the crook gets your social security number, who cares because the gov't is using your social security number as a seed and on certain days, only the unique nth number is significant.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY 1:26AM August 08, 2009