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    Breaking an Encryption

    I'm writing a program that interfaces with http://www.allmusic.com.

    I am trying to find a way to break the encryption on their SQLIDs. Here is a typical URL to an album on their site:

    http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg...0:olsqoayaiijn

    ... The part worth noting is everything after the colon: "olsqoayaiijn". This can be up to 35 different random combination of letters, and will still take you to the same album. Refresh this discography page a few times and watch how the URLs to the albums change each time: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg...lozefbkhgf8~T2

    On that album page, they list their "AMG Album ID" which is "P 26810".

    It seems logical to assume that "26810" can be encrypted to make "olsqoayaiijn" along with these other combinations:

    vgivadoku8w1
    ylanqjoiojsa
    0nfexqljldse
    61420r5ay48z
    sqkcikpkbb19
    2kt67ue0o0jg
    w4fe4j573wau
    fh4gtq7zmu44
    yva9kext0q7c
    eyf1zf0oeh7k
    5ckxu3ejanok
    1fpsa9qgi23a
    pq1ibks9kakc
    ogd1vwvua9ik
    w0jv7i21g7or
    ob9yxdfb1ol0
    xu5h8qbmbtn4
    lnsxlf0ejcqe
    4z811vj1zzca
    7hq4g4fmtv4z
    bun8b5x4msqh
    ekug6j2o71t0
    qf9as31ia3pg
    20o7gjwr16iv
    fbd0ylo1xp9b
    cq1m964ogep7
    olsqoayaiijn
    s96gtr2wkl5x
    4q67mpcg9f1o
    0y7zefekogf1
    xvec97y0krat
    51rz286y054a

    It's always possible that there is no encryption going on here and a block of random numbers/letters is assigned to each new album, but I am hoping that is not the case.

    Does anyone have any ideas on ways I could figure out how to encrypt/decrypt one of those?

    [EDIT] - If someone wants to try to break the encryption on their own, I have plenty of files of data of different encrypted forms of ID numbers.
    Last edited by eyeRmonkey; Jan 18th, 2007 at 10:28 PM.
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