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201406042000 27bbun

inferred encrypted filler

N=6

Metadata

Post ID
27bbun
Title
201406042000 → 2014-06-04 20:00 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-04 19:00:01
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 20:00 against posted 19:00 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
25 · 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
6 · 0
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

63caeb3d61db1e58ae2fa1a473d38146 26cafa4a310a7ae7ff77edbac78289be f8d39ab8d5bfe488be1d7891254f4fe0 62f4e3949d3bcc3d0e960a28a4ccbbbe 3e0c5429caacb307041965befa5637e2 01d09964603bd2a104f3dce3b139c484 f6e680c352fcd0bdb5a38ae5290eb89e 9144644a95507c81ddaf18dbc8c11b17 b18867ca8f0719b6407c6705733f9c07 df28fc91ed4288837793f3c440ced3f6 82a65e7bb347209a3105d8b565e3edd0 b19ba76158acbd38ac8797213e3e5e72 2c86ae27c46c4701 

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 25 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.