All agents are hereby required to email an update on their current mission. You have 5 days to do this, and if you do not you will be considered a rogue agent. Any level of activity or progress is acceptable so long as we are notified.

Once again our prime customer has come to us with a short message. Apparently, he can't actually make complete sentences. Anyway, there's a few files to download here so I've zipped them up.

I should really start charging more for this...

Attached file:
missioncontinued.zip

Your new mission data has been declared sensitive. It has been encrypted and attached below.

Apologies to those awaiting points. The Agency has been very busy recently. It seems that having an online presence has brought many of our old customers back, giving us more work than we can handle. Again.

Attached file:
yourmission.aaf

Only 3 days into the new system and we already have a customer willing to pay for your services. You should feel lucky. The full details of your first real mission are as follows:

You are to create a new cipher. It should be fairly simple, but complex enough such that a short message would be undecipherable, without the method of course. A 3 to 4 stage process is most desirable. It must be original - decryption of existing ciphers is too easy these days.

Our customer has requested that all potential cipher methods be sent to him, so the email address to send them to is different today. You should send all submissions to threehundredseventynine@gmail.com

Good luck working for 379, and I hope you make him happy. For your sake.

EDIT: Some additional details; there are no points for this mission, but you may work as a team. We want top quality work for our actual customers.

We are happy to announce that, along with the launch of our site, we can launch the newest version of the AA Encryptor. If we need to send agents any messages of a secure nature, we will use the encryptor to ensure the highest security on them.

The encryptor can be downloaded here. Unfortunately, we only have a Windows version currently available, although our team is working on versions for other OSes.

The AA Encryptor also requires installation of the Microsoft .NET framework. This comes as part of Windows Vista, but if you have Windows XP, or a previous version, then you will need to download this from Microsoft's website.

We welcome all new agents to the new Alpha Agency site. We hope that the integrated task system and online mission updates increase the agency's productivity.

Please take the time to familiarise yourself with the system. Tasks are listed in the Task List, and any tasks which require images have their own gallery - if you would not like your image submission in the gallery, let us know. Agent points totals can be viewed under the Leaderboard. Customer and contact information is also available in the top menu, although we do not expect agents to use these.

On your right hand menu, you should be able to see your account details and points summary links. Points are given for completing tasks, or sometimes for making a breakthrough in full missions.

The site isn't perfect, but we hope you like it!