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201404181930 23dizi

inferred encrypted filler

N=4

Metadata

Post ID
23dizi
Title
201404181930 → 2014-04-18 19:30 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-04-18 18:30:00
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 19:30 against posted 18:30 UTC
Author
[deleted]
Account
A858DE45F56D9BC9 main account
Subreddit
r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 the main subreddit
Category
F5 filler by length law: 64N+16
Size
272 hex characters · 136 bytes
N from length
4 (64·N + 16 = 272)
Run
Run 62 (seed 507,820,296) (seed)
Draw
60 · predicted N = 4 ✓
Machine boot
2014-04-10 09:27–10:27 (seed = uptime at app start)
Sources
community-archive, arctic-shift · body from community-archive
Links
Reddit · Arctic Shift · JSON
Score · comments
4 · 4
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

8739e3c84e95d03c11b050c291c3a60e a93114ecccaea4e4048dd9856312d8ac ed3a729f1e1b6c2ad5060927985a4fbd a38c7c03b992341c19e448127fcc9980 e4d4ac0a4f67f80c35d54e83854c6f9c 549e6b8d9b5c01e7d1d11102b50e073e f7bef06d0333657fa7b2622c0be16961 9be6dd3111995b5d57ccc505d2130c4d ccfd261bbb5c837b 

Explanation

  1. Read the length. 272 hex characters = 64 × 4 + 16, i.e. N = 4 GUIDs encrypted with 3DES plus one 8-byte padding block. Every post-cutover filler post has exactly this shape.
  2. Key unknown. The post-cutover key (2013-10-16 onwards) has not been found, so the GUIDs themselves cannot be read. Everything else about the post is accounted for.
  3. Explain the count. This post is draw 60 of Run 62 (seed 507,820,296): new Random(507820296), Next(0,55) per post. The RNG predicts N = 4; the post has N = 4 ✓. The seed is the machine's uptime in ms when the app started (boot 2014-04-10 09:27–10:27).
  4. Conclusion. Filler. Structure and count are explained; the GUIDs are presumed filler like every decrypted post before the cutover.