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Encrypting short identifiers?

I am developing a webapp that does not reveal record count, because it hides the primary key. I am looking for a better way to do this. My favorite idea is to encrypt the ID itself with a block ...
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chosen plaintext attacks against MD5 and SHA1

According to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-4.9, having the server chose a nonce but not having the client chose a nonce opens up Digest Access authentication to chosen plaintext attacks. ...