method for decoding encrypted clickbank hoplinks?

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Hello,
how difficult can be the clickbank encryption of hoplinks?

Is there someone who has been successfully finding the formula used to encrypt hoplinks?
It's based on vendor and affiliate ids and some fixed method to manipulate it to give the encrypted part of the url.

Personally I tried simple things but was unsuccessful, I know it's a waste of time but it's a hobby like any other, I'm sure someone has tried too in their spare time, didn't you? :-)
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  • It's likely they have used a key with the decryption method.

    It would likely be something like encrypt(key + vendor + affid) or a number of variations.

    The only way to decrypt that hoplink would be to know the key that is used, the order of the key\vendor\affid variables, and the encryption method used and there are a lot of those. This is only one of many ways to encrypt data.

    The key would likely be rather large too, to avoid brute force attacks.
  • Banned
    Sorry but I've just realize that each time you generate a promote link (encrypted) from the same vendor with the same affiliate id the result is different.
    So they're probably using time() and some other method and then saving that encrypted id in their database, so really I don't think it can be reverse engineered.
    I don't know how they can keep such a large database though, imagine the number of times people are generating those encrypted hoplinks, the database may be huge, so maybe I'm wrong, but google has an even larger database and so it is possible. :-)
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    • Even if they don't do that, you would not have been able to decrypt the link without the key being used to do the encryption in the first place.
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