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201405241932 26er3d

inferred encrypted filler

N=5

Metadata

Post ID
26er3d
Title
201405241932 → 2014-05-24 19:32 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-05-24 23:32:58
Timezone
UTC−4 · title 19:32 against posted 23:32 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
128 · 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
3 · 0
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

232e9cc19d241b51af1cfc26b83a2187 0479cd2e8f37f98344d8ecd4382282cb 0dda1aa47fe9bd509b24a5bb0271d50d df57476dde1c8998ef38aee1ac383a32 8ddbf73adf0d3c1bb2a342f6d088545e 2b696213faf1359e82385fbe4bf291ca 77045dc86563b2e569a9f60ee6115a54 afd3c7e4cb49513a8c1acbdbafc7b2f5 ce56925eb943a3fba846a0f4bd822dd8 87e835b63d6b54451e64595194cb3e93 00727cd45376d5ab 

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 128 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.