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201405140405 25i4ww

inferred encrypted filler

N=7

Metadata

Post ID
25i4ww
Title
201405140405 → 2014-05-14 04:05 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-05-14 02:05:01
Timezone
UTC+2 · title 04:05 against posted 02:05 UTC
Author
[deleted]
Account
A858DE45F56D9BC9 main account
Subreddit
r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 the main subreddit
Category
F5 filler by length law: 64N+16
Size
464 hex characters · 232 bytes
N from length
7 (64·N + 16 = 464)
Run
Run 63 (seed 1,506,676,046) (seed)
Draw
30 · predicted N = 7 ✓
Machine boot
F 2014-04-10 10:33–11:39 (seed = uptime at app start)
Sources
community-archive, arctic-shift · body from community-archive
Links
Reddit · Arctic Shift · JSON
Score · comments
1 · 0
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

4c4a5298e6c752610f336afe637b6d6a ddb71df59a369ea414fe65ffe46388ad 77278486ad477793d7d2321644641a48 df0ab49a011c43c9ce8071c4184112b5 7140bbd97d02efed3e6e8c9b2e56e1f7 31bac9e4b08eab7f4082ff8737731278 a03de0a5cf38fb71e21489824253ebd4 fa3a0e5ea986e2d212c606a6174e71e9 8f4a86ee6fb381f22216d124ad9cca39 2bd2c32ee4d792fd1f6e589771b2dbb9 f63d4ec97bf3dda64eb7c30e21bcdbf8 608d7dbcc9741dd6a7558b8a81de9197 3b0b7543cb9d35a4b93fc6b26b97f53b 3fba472beb644a705f1da0c1b4cf65f7 1c19a0d639092e90 

Explanation

  1. Read the length. 464 hex characters = 64 × 7 + 16, i.e. N = 7 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 30 of Run 63 (seed 1,506,676,046): new Random(1506676046), Next(0,33) per post. The RNG predicts N = 7; the post has N = 7 ✓. The seed is the machine's uptime in ms when the app started (boot F 2014-04-10 10:33–11:39).
  4. Conclusion. Filler. Structure and count are explained; the GUIDs are presumed filler like every decrypted post before the cutover.