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201406041800 27az7v

inferred encrypted filler

N=12

Metadata

Post ID
27az7v
Title
201406041800 → 2014-06-04 18:00 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-04 17:00:01
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
784 hex characters · 392 bytes
N from length
12 (64·N + 16 = 784)
Run
Run 65 (seed 1,582,093,843) (seed)
Draw
24 · predicted N = 12 ✓
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
10 · 0
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

e02360dc75b8c7ded25f103ccbe76950 54be10cc4204b73a7372057bc6cb9e01 c1f85f80381c83bf8517e2cba6c0e920 3b7a1c4058b8cac692b7e047ca7dd62c 78b1f974cf7bf0bf9d074f81479219d2 651a23e81eb00519cecce52684c918a1 8c084f77b2bd7af2947a58251048533a 7813102dcbc3bbcd628fdd1533f37871 32b5b9c53f4f6b73189d5610edfd4cfe 1b711594c3f3a5676faf20b2de537600 721fd84c7553005013baade4e73b1df7 d2a86e80c61478444c5755f99f2ceb9c 62b17beebd2914131c368358d1df84d9 5b2ef53dc8349fe421b490dee6b00a04 71c7d519e156813c8d5b1bfc1bcb066d 9d57f689963e04602f709c9bb257c616 847bdbff909dd2faa60c74fb089bbb81 06703ee2b3cf360e24182a3bc856b500 d247cc9e6d72fc2a890320405ad2ee85 65ff85fa91f594c84da628330a41cf44 445ca325ef25b1e08f6bb1e37e350196 187e77d770fb1615f68b5aaeaa568856 91bd06090850366b03c4cb5f8d59d992 9f666cc91fb4c154de48d782401b4234 377ee993e45bcc13 

Explanation

  1. Read the length. 784 hex characters = 64 × 12 + 16, i.e. N = 12 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 24 of Run 65 (seed 1,582,093,843): new Random(1582093843), Next(0,22) per post. The RNG predicts N = 12; the post has N = 12 ✓. 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.