SIN

Generates a new valid Canadian Social Insurance Number that preserves the formatting of the original value.

For example, the original value might be 123456789, 123 456 789, or 123-456-789. The output value uses the same format.

Characteristics

Consistency	Yes, can be made self-consistent.
Linking	No, cannot be linked.
Differential privacy	No, cannot be made differentially private.
Data-free	Yes, if consistency is not enabled.
Allowed for primary keys	No
Allowed for unique columns	Yes
Uses format-preserving encryption (FPE)	Yes
Privacy ranking	1 if not consistent 4 if consistent
Generator ID (for the API)	SINGenerator

How to configure

To configure the generator, toggle the Consistency setting to indicate whether to make the generator self-consistent.

By default, the generator is not consistent.

If Structural data encryption is enabled, then to use it for this column, toggle Use data encryption process to the on position.