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201406040600 279noy

inferred encrypted filler

N=5

Metadata

Post ID
279noy
Title
201406040600 → 2014-06-04 06:00 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-04 05:00:01
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 06:00 against posted 05:00 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
18 · 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
2 · 0
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

916b53b37a0665f97d32c84197726c3c afbca00ed8b0909bd5931bcbee3e21c6 e37d03006a2cad1492edd2b58db484cb da802fbaaa377f026d1c45bc8d39561f 08cc7df33b6fe4b3b981200630c66b33 91a803d2dd3143f9c43434695eabff75 a04eda0f3b19b2a4a09030512f0b0426 78a05df072af0fdc36a965db902048ed 3f74de43f2b09db03f0beb9ddbeb2920 0a7b51166ceb607dff6c01df55d74f12 90e4924ab48b8d26 

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 18 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.