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Thank you all. &nbsp;You have all echoed my thoughts on this, except for rnicolaus who offered a possible solution.
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I have clients who insist on storing social security numbers in a database. &nbsp;Is there a secure way to do this?
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I have clients who insist on storing social security numbers in a database.  Is there a secure way to do this?

Thank you all.  You have all echoed my thoughts on this, except for rnicolaus who offered a possible solution.

Storing social security numbers.

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