How do you encrypt URLs of pages?

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I saw that Box.net does this for their shared pages:

http://www.box.net/shared/7g4q7pnok4

instead of the usual:

http://www.box.net/shared/12345

I Googled for the last hour, but still haven't found out how to encrypt URLs. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong terms.

Any ideas on how to "encrypt" URLs?

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add an encrypted/hashed attribute on your model [and db]. then use that attribute in the routing instead of id.

map.encrypted "/shared/:encrypted_attribute", :controller => "some_controller", :action => "some_action"

HTH

RSL