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201406050559 27cx46

inferred encrypted filler

N=4

Metadata

Post ID
27cx46
Title
201406050559 → 2014-06-05 05:59 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-05 05:00:00
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 05:59 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
272 hex characters · 136 bytes
N from length
4 (64·N + 16 = 272)
Run
Run 65 (seed 1,582,093,843) (seed)
Draw
30 · predicted N = 4 ✓
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 · 1
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

a23081937c8d6e1b633fbe627e34dfdf ee813932b6196b23a582705e0950a562 234967bfdf8f77cd3aa8af5b894b8ea0 4b019c406384913dc44afc64753bc8a4 c377eb6df02c740315b50d3393cb3e19 405f5037897689f73a588d087eadff55 7d34352300bb5640de5f7c630bd23db3 fdb11075b7f5b0705213f7ec6118f688 9aa7192b988c1d66 

Explanation

  1. Read the length. 272 hex characters = 64 × 4 + 16, i.e. N = 4 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 30 of Run 65 (seed 1,582,093,843): new Random(1582093843), Next(0,22) per post. The RNG predicts N = 4; the post has N = 4 ✓. 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.