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201406061559 27h2ee

inferred encrypted filler

N=5

Metadata

Post ID
27h2ee
Title
201406061559 → 2014-06-06 15:59 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-06 14:59:58
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 15:59 against posted 14:59 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
47 · 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
10 · 1
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

d1842b0a05b320cb7a7f4bff788ea3cd b0638b252e1a2b2e56103f4fe22eb029 358be14a9428ad1473ed1cc2645126d5 f4e37364f4986ee24aaae58c353fb77e d8cae769727574c07e24291754f6ff61 e631cb21d5f1614dee2452f446d0bb47 dda617be1f13677865a32368d0c2f138 cc444b6228d79d12743f67291e4e6a81 98ea0aa7ebd93eae7213d4d293a00f11 07d197a0c50318ae3248e43148ac7ad4 ef19020b52666b90 

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 47 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.