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201601201706 41wngc

inferred encrypted filler

N=20

Metadata

Post ID
41wngc
Title
201601201706 → 2016-01-20 17:06 on A858's clock
Posted (UTC)
2016-01-20 22:06:52
Timezone
UTC−5 · title 17:06 against posted 22:06 UTC
Author
A858DE45F56D9BC9
Account
A858DE45F56D9BC9 main account
Subreddit
r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 the main subreddit
Category
F5 filler by length law: 64N+16
Size
1,296 hex characters · 648 bytes
N from length
20 (64·N + 16 = 1296)
Run
Run 73 (seed 546,388,634) (seed)
Draw
27 · predicted N = 20 ✓
Machine boot
2016-01-13 11:18–12:18 (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-cutover2016Undecrypted filler (fits the length law)run: seed

From the post to its content

As posted (encrypted)

e08f4ae9db6bf627a21922c71a052ee9 f039adf3568b220ea5f1c03948781636 e4033246ab529a15e9058441dcc046fc 7070775b46761dd39de8b3ab02d4921b cb93c7485a9d0b1926a29bab29ebc040 3d4c1f7945d2cc56dc2c612e4f11a1b4 73240757d70bd987a0f0df143637ca2b a12624ffee73cf0795c601bd0c401ff6 3fdc433d081591c4c54ace1f97f6de15 c905a72abe42db0fd3f55f7258c0c146 6c1a884edba3957e3697b7c38dd8743a d9ecfffcebb989d2ee6b9fadd6643735 b4ebd48b45c5d484765f2dafe0f1ddb1 7da2fb6c58c915a837aecc3c3dcb0a16 824379c7729128b689eaf2d5dbdc976e 8ab102dc795d513f3be6f00298b02998 ff3053ef292f46c841fea745f1e414ca 6022062db56358d5661cccb21c4d04bf 3b087bd8769837bd12287b7d20e6ecc0 d08b2f47b94c8f42f9a19d0c6c274c5a b2f5635952b4ef2f42fe43f39e0d9d7f 672a61138ff3c5358292376d0258ff34 9507fcdfcdf20a57899125ad769f7673 11cf5668af1a513e8ccf73dae4321a65 2ff55428b356d921b9835cfa73607756 62e92f2237baf942c6c5a85c795ea004 fa0279ba9524b4f1a7cc550bfe337820 a0cf9ad2963973ec5ce84555b9229633 ea56194258dac705814057d407f2227c a9e2e5eae5a2a818cf05dbb0e34d9ca2 fb940507e263cfa5d46393160d4162c5 4efe7c42b41fc97c848a19ebbbc881bb 482453062a8b0bdf055a7bdd2672f91b 29022788d5e6b35d276eea28220a2278 0cc42bedcce2d812584b9b366ba519fd 6e03d6bd357718b3fe018ec6e50ed419 8fbbaa297595100304653325cbdd4d53 62c44c9a20dcd32af8e592df557bb56c 9cf6e5151b82d525ce314df5c6a88df6 cbfaeb5ffa52b1bf0ff015d182c80b64 dde8830746666568 

Explanation

  1. Read the length. 1,296 hex characters = 64 × 20 + 16, i.e. N = 20 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 27 of Run 73 (seed 546,388,634): new Random(546388634), Next(10,35) per post. The RNG predicts N = 20; the post has N = 20 ✓. The seed is the machine's uptime in ms when the app started (boot 2016-01-13 11:18–12:18).
  4. Conclusion. Filler. Structure and count are explained; the GUIDs are presumed filler like every decrypted post before the cutover.