Message 1 - (212) 796-0735
For mein fraulein
Mein Fraulein, I haven’t heard from you in a while. Won’t you
call me? 212 //// 796 //// 0735
Group 415
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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:
"But of course, in the digital age, PDAs, and Palm Pilots maybe handwriting is passe."
When XOR'ed against the ciphertext, this produced the following message:
"OMG, Hai2u Three Letter Agencies! -- www.la2600.org/notespionage u:dogballs p:catsex"