Message 4 - (501) 588-1015
For Mein Fraulein
Mein Fraulein,
Do not become disillusioned; you are more popular than you imagine. Call me.
501 //// 588 //// 1015
Group 205
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Decryption:
After we reorganized Project Evil on July 15th, 2006, we decided that these first four original messages didn't go in the right direction for our project. Up until this time, we were just picking messages to encrypt at random, usually without any group discussion beforehand. As a result we ended up using login names like 'dogballs' and passwords like 'catsex'. Now, before you ask, 'dogballs' is a running joke inside of LA2600 that goes all the way back to this Onion article (2nd picture down). Similarly, 'catsex' is simply the inverse corollary of 'dogballs' , though we sometimes like to tattoo it on potatoes.
The reason we didn't release the first four messages during our original talk is because we wanted to continue using the same login page for our final 10th message crypto challenge, but with different login credentials. Thus we had no choice but to keep these first four messages under wraps until the crypto challenge was broken.
In this case, the first message used the One Time Pad:
"I would like a nice laptop for fifty cents (they claim that couple of coins should do it)"
When XOR'ed against the ciphertext, this produced the following message:
"Hoc tempore obsequium amicos, veritas odium pari -- tinyurl.com/f7w7y u dogballs p catsex"
Loosely translated this Latin phrase means, "These days friends are won by flattery, but the truth gives birth to hate." It was originally meant as a retort to the copycat numbers station put up by the organizers of the HOPE conference. Yes, were were annoyed when we posted it, and have since chilled out.