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201406070559 27j2lg

inferred encrypted filler

N=5

Metadata

Post ID
27j2lg
Title
201406070559 → 2014-06-07 05:59 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-07 04:59:58
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 05:59 against posted 04:59 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
54 · 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
2 · 0
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

a13f8294fe072d84471072e84d60f914 7e73a6b17fe2134358f97dce4780dfa2 3576fb757d2e77f6f57a0849232632ce 19f7eaa524aeda6e1244a51dcead2578 607b8473be65388c3c1e63ee37ae59f8 9578a2b8774cabaa71d8f9ba580ba8ed 7a904ccc2331763e5258e03cbfd85961 3c806ce89167df00c08c166be385839d 3ebb3acfbe8cfc4816c7d78086d5429d e90e1c82c16dafa7125e9a0ee19b2c95 274fe5fdb29f2ec5 

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 54 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.