EVL Anonymization

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Version 0.2

Released

2019/07

EVL Version needed

2.1

Changes

Function ‘TOKENIZE’ renamed to ‘ANONYMIZE_UNIQ’ as it better describes what it does. To migrate, it is enough to replace all in anon-config file(s) and regenerate jobs.
Function ‘TOKENIZE_LKP’ renamed to ‘TOKENIZE’. To migrate, it is enough to replace all in anon-config file(s) and regenerate jobs.
Default Anonymization options can be added into project.sh:
```
export EVL_ANON_DEFAULT_MIN_STRING_LENGTH=0
export EVL_ANON_DEFAULT_MAX_STRING_LENGTH=10
```
Then for string fields these values are used when ‘min_length’ and/or ‘max_length’ are empty in anon-config file.
When running generated anonymization jobs, data are appended to the target file/table, not overwritten.
Dates/timestamps 9999-12-31 and 4712-12-31 are not anonymized by default.

New features

randomization,
Min and Max can be specified also for dates and timestamps,
masking.

Migration script

To migrate your config CSV file from version 0.1, just run:

# cd to your project directory
for i in anon-config.*.csv
do
  mv $i $i.bckp
  sed 's/TOKENIZE\([^_]\)/ANONYMIZE_UNIQ\1/;
       s/TOKENIZE_LKP/TOKENIZE/' $i.bckp >$i
done

EVL Anonymization

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