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201406041000 27a0pv

inferred encrypted filler

N=5

Metadata

Post ID
27a0pv
Title
201406041000 → 2014-06-04 10:00 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-04 09:00:01
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 10:00 against posted 09:00 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
20 · 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 · 1
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

a77a4cce58a7cd97ff021125e70f5cd1 fe2b6c4a4d92898bae1ebb13e8007861 09c6325ee0eb1244731b82f6e325ec29 625926e7a3fe7149e28ba7e6dc6ecd21 aa8a5906cf89db84f6876c811fc64b43 c946c8db662183eabe8b90d42c3bdf5f 4b9eb978875bc72e1d1bdbd0a40a45f6 c1d3e470e980933bc4199c17a3b0cb9a 684ba1b3c67735614d7fdfa8c5032cde 53697993d9be69a740ddd57da533ff7f aec91acc4f2b59a4 

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 20 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.