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201406041400 27ad87

inferred encrypted filler

N=6

Metadata

Post ID
27ad87
Title
201406041400 → 2014-06-04 14:00 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-04 13:00:01
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 14:00 against posted 13:00 UTC
Author
[deleted]
Account
A858DE45F56D9BC9 main account
Subreddit
r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 the main subreddit
Category
F5 filler by length law: 64N+16
Size
400 hex characters · 200 bytes
N from length
6 (64·N + 16 = 400)
Run
Run 65 (seed 1,582,093,843) (seed)
Draw
22 · predicted N = 6 ✓
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)

d9dd385204acac8f9080142666a15b17 61d38086dbbcdc68d218dff435819e93 e3dece7a3f4f93bf9e666cb936e46a68 82bd7ff48706433cada6036c43afaee0 9edde5e054e892876cf1a35e132ec365 9acc77d9cd051c30915db66f2b392bae 1f901e7c5e09dc228dcbdba000f96ab3 c701af2f3e2cf2191a42a38069740917 72f2a55557e046028524570fa423e8b4 a48bfd6ea62f5d645c0d1dcb98b7178e de34f4b59fc58bce542124d146ff2ff9 e8afdd3fab689eb6d3aa4a853912bba2 cf552f8b5bd69532 

Explanation

  1. Read the length. 400 hex characters = 64 × 6 + 16, i.e. N = 6 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 22 of Run 65 (seed 1,582,093,843): new Random(1582093843), Next(0,22) per post. The RNG predicts N = 6; the post has N = 6 ✓. 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.