From: smb@research.att.com
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 94 19:08:33 PDT
To: Mats Bergstrom <matsb@sos.sll.se>
Subject: Re: DNA
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	 In my country we are all issued a unique software agent at birth i the
	 format: YYMMDDxxxy where y is a check for authenticity (to make it
	 harder faking a number I guess)

No.  The purpose of check digits like that is to detect innocent errors in
data entry.