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201406031800 277r8p

inferred encrypted filler

N=4

Metadata

Post ID
277r8p
Title
201406031800 → 2014-06-03 18:00 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-03 17:00:02
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 18:00 against posted 17:00 UTC
Author
[deleted]
Account
A858DE45F56D9BC9 main account
Subreddit
r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 the main subreddit
Category
F5 filler by length law: 64N+16
Size
272 hex characters · 136 bytes
N from length
4 (64·N + 16 = 272)
Run
Run 65 (seed 1,582,093,843) (seed)
Draw
12 · predicted N = 4 ✓
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)

60bbaf5a13d8a98733d4a83aab85e761 3aeaf7b8689aee17e6a4cf09d269497d 30210fd7ee457c6070160afc48f3a449 57e5013d153956ff60e69c08b0e029b9 d2324334e5a6bfbb15752545286eec65 a5dd0e06f70e369aa0cd67f1e2debec5 27c87c80a5b027425243d7a332a336fb 14d9d2fb9206136225b32f5be9e39180 afe7da2d6524c035 

Explanation

  1. Read the length. 272 hex characters = 64 × 4 + 16, i.e. N = 4 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 12 of Run 65 (seed 1,582,093,843): new Random(1582093843), Next(0,22) per post. The RNG predicts N = 4; the post has N = 4 ✓. 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.