Surely you don't actually use all billion values. 

> 
> 
> John, this is actually kinda like my plan B.  A real identifier of
> value N would be translated to be the Nth value in a sequence of
> pseudo-random numbers.  The only problem is maintaining a billion row
> table.  I have thought of asking our security officer if I can get away
> with only masking the last six digits of the identifier, leaving the
> first three ASIS.
> 
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