Creating django objects with a random primary key

Question

I\'m working with an API that wants me to generate opaque \"reference IDs\" for transactions with their API, in other words, unique references that users can\'t guess or infer i

Answer 1

Why not just encrypt the normal sequential ids instead? To someone who doesn't know the encryption key, the ids will seem just as random. You can write a wrapper that automatically decrypts the ID on the way to the DB, and encrypts it on the way from the DB.