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201406080159 27l5eo

inferred encrypted filler

N=5

Metadata

Post ID
27l5eo
Title
201406080159 → 2014-06-08 01:59 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2014-06-08 00:59:57
Timezone
UTC+1 · title 01:59 against posted 00:59 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
64 · 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
1 · 0
Tags
post-cutover2014Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

f10b7321e6f6556f8320709de995e03d 45cd833e5065f426527be89338da5309 afc0ff0adf61e32fb2c7b4bb150ef48c 03d96db1cdd210e905b2066d2c3f1b0f f0a3bccc557734126ea34dbe61dd87ba 6071ce8939116ba77c369567432c270b 55c5211126fde291c063bec07098bd27 11d2a4e0f081a013f30c656336216a0c c151f9f462fd7b5e149b8448e83998b6 93bd7c1914cd0c62cf6a33b977c545eb 9bf067514912c9fe 

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 64 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.