A858DE45F56D9BC9 archive

201405201833 262ivv

inferred encrypted filler

N=2

Metadata

Post ID
262ivv
Title
201405201833 → 2014-05-20 18:33 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-05-20 22:33:02
Timezone
UTC−4 · title 18:33 against posted 22:33 UTC
Author
[deleted]
Account
A858DE45F56D9BC9 main account
Subreddit
r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 the main subreddit
Category
F5 filler by length law: 64N+16
Size
144 hex characters · 72 bytes
N from length
2 (64·N + 16 = 144)
Run
Run 64 (seed 367,071,562) (seed)
Draw
31 · predicted N = 2 ✓
Machine boot
2014-05-15 09:35–10:35 (seed = uptime at app start)
Sources
community-archive, arctic-shift · body from community-archive
Links
Reddit · Arctic Shift · JSON
Score · comments
7 · 2
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

dd6bf18bae1db5284dd69906251e73d6 16b423a2b78eb179e79834e9b6f1e4ef 8be4cee5296890864585c6eb32106098 662ed2187d0c1486e27f23241c54303f eb12fb1a5aa5dd97 

Explanation

  1. Read the length. 144 hex characters = 64 × 2 + 16, i.e. N = 2 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 31 of Run 64 (seed 367,071,562): new Random(367071562), Next(0,33) per post. The RNG predicts N = 2; the post has N = 2 ✓. The seed is the machine's uptime in ms when the app started (boot 2014-05-15 09:35–10:35).
  4. Conclusion. Filler. Structure and count are explained; the GUIDs are presumed filler like every decrypted post before the cutover.