Salt secrecy is important: if identifiers such as NHS numbers are used as PIDs, it must be assumed that knowledge of the salt allows RID to PID lookup by brute-force hashing of all possible PIDs, since such PIDs are from a restricted range (an NHS number is a 9-digit number plus a ...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible central vision impairment in industrialized countries. Advanced AMD presents as geographic atrophy (GA) and/or neovascular (NV) complications [1]. Typically, advanced AMD is preceded by clinically asymptomatic and thus often u...