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Hack Cryptographic Signature

The encrypted signature reads:

-----BEGIN KERBEROS E-MAILS AUTO-AUTHENTICATION SIGNATURE-----
Version: 5.0

MITXXXACHgcv69CgCAcVGCCCCAK6c96c6ca6cCh63487854317844874SAE236x
87362DKE123823989ADPruLZ123898813FlOrEyIzGoB23B1FFizzzK00Ld00D8
2aIHTFP2v45v4vq45v5554gx42424242ElV1sHEliVZBYgoB123asdkjh?1238z
adhzoink12656SNARK9912386MunKiSPunK66712388123987123dk12985jdkw

-----END KERBEROS E-MAILS AUTO-AUTHENTICATION SIGNATURE-----

At first glance, this is meant to look like a PGP signature. However, there are many amusing strings buried in the signature:

MIT: It is not likely that a truly encrypted digital signature would begin with so obvious a subsequence
SAE: Sigma Alpha Epsilon
DKE: Delta Kappa Epsilon
ADPrulZ: corruption of ``ADP (Alpha Delta Phi) rules.''
FlOrEyIzGoB: corruption of ``Florey is God'' in reference to Jack Florey.
B1FFizzzK00Ld00D: corruption of ``Biff is cool dude'' in reference to Biff of netnews legend.
IHTFP: Ingenius Housing Tackles Frosh Preferences (?)
42424242: reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
ElV1sHEliVZBYgoB: corruption of ``Elvis, He lives, by God''
zoink: random nerdly meta-word
SNARK: mythical animal from The Hunting of the Snark, a poem by Lewis Carroll
MunKiSPunK: ``monkey spunk''- British slang term for ``dolphin wax,'' often heard around male IFC members.


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