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parhammmm / models.py
Created December 8, 2012 19:20 — forked from treyhunner/models.py
Encrypt and decrypt Django model primary key values (useful for publicly viewable unique identifiers)
# This code is under the MIT license.
# Inspired by this StackOverflow question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3295405/creating-django-objects-with-a-random-primary-key
import struct
from Crypto.Cipher import DES
from django.db import models
def base36encode(number):
"""Encode number to string of alphanumeric characters (0 to z). (Code taken from Wikipedia)."""