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201406030800 276m29

inferred encrypted filler

N=5

Metadata

Post ID
276m29
Title
201406030800 → 2014-06-03 08:00 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-03 07:00:02
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 08:00 against posted 07:00 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 65 (seed 1,582,093,843) (seed)
Draw
7 · predicted N = 5 ✓
Machine boot
2014-05-15 09:31–11:31 (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)

2d67761551db6d4e2dfe3870f4a56146 d685a08eb79a85da15cf2dda4fd9ea47 4d500669c2f6b30c42b28cf16687b3e5 4c8f71fde165afce493df837242a5076 facecabb917bf28558a888e2d47cf961 caa0f4f566427921b29d472e2f1d88bf dbc3d747c13ac8f920c84ccd3754bc5a 1880e2ee574e5e7b763bf77558a31a32 fc9616f41bcb500d77632d3f9397b866 39c49da44a8cd7a083420c7532f90e37 582db4777b5d3c40 

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 7 of Run 65 (seed 1,582,093,843): new Random(1582093843), Next(0,22) 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 09:31–11:31).
  4. Conclusion. Filler. Structure and count are explained; the GUIDs are presumed filler like every decrypted post before the cutover.