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201405241432 26e3yg

inferred encrypted filler

N=5

Metadata

Post ID
26e3yg
Title
201405241432 → 2014-05-24 14:32 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-05-24 18:32:58
Timezone
UTC−4 · title 14:32 against posted 18:32 UTC
Author
[deleted]
Account
A858DE45F56D9BC9 main account
Subreddit
r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 the main subreddit
Category
F5 filler by length law: 64N+16
Size
336 hex characters · 168 bytes
N from length
5 (64·N + 16 = 336)
Run
Run 64 (seed 367,071,562) (seed)
Draw
123 · predicted N = 5 ✓
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
2 · 0
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

7fba75dd8b77f4f0ff961a974a479ba7 506bd7c6aae65e34e38d7d0503fa6725 be910526c42ad60bdbae6002834fc5e1 459d1d4c1c764ea44263b25033bf6512 3096511cf539fa02ddd8516ec43257e8 708338054174d1298151b2342d4380d0 67c82937a565129d0e56a92667b265c6 f33f0a0a0e73cb9d957e47188c5bd12b 649682420cf7c27f54801e2f011625ae 0b0c6f39aa06cca1b4f03b7ff5dac03c 3641b4cbd7b0bfa2 

Explanation

  1. Read the length. 336 hex characters = 64 × 5 + 16, i.e. N = 5 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 123 of Run 64 (seed 367,071,562): new Random(367071562), Next(0,33) per post. The RNG predicts N = 5; the post has N = 5 ✓. 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.