Firstly disclaimer that I work at Very Good Security.
ec109685 is right and this is precisely what VGS does. Most companies collect sensitive data (PII/PCI) to achieve a business objective, like verifying identity, age, creditworthiness or to authorize payment. Storing and securing this data is not their primary objective and possession of data comes with the burden of compliance and regulations. VGS acts as a proxy aliasing sensitive datasets as the data flows between systems. When it is time to use this data, VGS acts as a proxy replacing the aliases with real values as data has to be exchanged with third parties.
When dealing with short attributes, combining several other parts of the form to create a composite alias partitioned over the different parts of the payload gets the job done. This would expand the size of the short integer. Adjacent encodings in Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters further expand possibilities.
ec109685 is right and this is precisely what VGS does. Most companies collect sensitive data (PII/PCI) to achieve a business objective, like verifying identity, age, creditworthiness or to authorize payment. Storing and securing this data is not their primary objective and possession of data comes with the burden of compliance and regulations. VGS acts as a proxy aliasing sensitive datasets as the data flows between systems. When it is time to use this data, VGS acts as a proxy replacing the aliases with real values as data has to be exchanged with third parties.
When dealing with short attributes, combining several other parts of the form to create a composite alias partitioned over the different parts of the payload gets the job done. This would expand the size of the short integer. Adjacent encodings in Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters further expand possibilities.