Decoding Lab: Understanding a Secret Message

You have just intercepted an encoded message. The message is a sequence of bits which reads as follows in hexadecimal:

6363636363636363724646636F6D6F72 
466D203A65693A7243646E206F54540A 
5920453A54756F0A6F6F470A21643A6F 
594E2020206F776F797275744563200A 
6F786F686E6963736C206765796C656B 
2C3365737420346E20216F74726F5966 
7565636F202061206C61676374206C6F 
20206F74747865656561727632727463 
6E617920680A64746F69766120646E69 
21687467630020656C6C786178742078 
6578206F727478787863617800783174 
You have no idea how to decode it, but you know that your grade depends on it, so you are willing to do anything to extract the message. Fortunately, one of your many agents on the field has stolen the source code for the decoder. This agent (007) has put the code and the message in the filesecret.cpp, which you can download from the laboratory of your technical staff (Q). 
Q has noticed that the decoder takes four integers as arguments. Executing the decoder with various arguments seems to either crash the program or produce unintelligible output. It seems that the correct four integers have to be chosen in order for the program to produce the decoded message. These four integers are the "secret keys."

007 has been unable to find the keys, but from the desk of the encrypting personnel he was able to cunningly retrieve the first five characters of the unencoded message. These characters are:

From:
Assignment

Your assignment is to decode the message, and find the keys. 

/***************************************************************
/*        2012-9-25                                           **
/*        revised by zuohang                                  **
/*In debug condition, the input arguments can be set by
menu--project--settings---Debug---program arguments.
Suppose you input 1 2 3 4 here, the argv[1] correponds to "1".
/*
/**************************************************************/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int prologue [] = {
	0x5920453A, 0x54756F0A, 0x6F6F470A, 0x21643A6F,
	0x6E617920, 0x680A6474, 0x6F697661, 0x20646E69,
	0x63636363, 0x63636363, 0x72464663, 0x6F6D6F72,
	0x63636363, 0x63636363, 0x72464663, 0x6F6D6F72,
	0x2C336573, 0x7420346E, 0x20216F74, 0x726F5966,
	0x7565636F, 0x20206120, 0x6C616763, 0x74206C6F,
	0x20206F74, 0x74786565, 0x65617276, 0x32727463,
	0x594E2020, 0x206F776F, 0x79727574, 0x4563200A
};

int data [] = {
	0x63636363, 0x63636363, 0x72464663, 0x6F6D6F72,
      	0x466D203A, 0x65693A72, 0x43646E20, 0x6F54540A,
      	0x5920453A, 0x54756F0A, 0x6F6F470A, 0x21643A6F,
      	0x594E2020, 0x206F776F, 0x79727574, 0x4563200A,
      	0x6F786F68, 0x6E696373, 0x6C206765, 0x796C656B,
      	0x2C336573, 0x7420346E, 0x20216F74, 0x726F5966,
      	0x7565636F, 0x20206120, 0x6C616763, 0x74206C6F,
      	0x20206F74, 0x74786565, 0x65617276, 0x32727463,
      	0x6E617920, 0x680A6474, 0x6F697661, 0x20646E69,
      	0x21687467, 0x63002065, 0x6C6C7861, 0x78742078,
      	0x6578206F, 0x72747878, 0x78636178, 0x00783174
};

int epilogue [] = {
	0x594E2020, 0x206F776F, 0x79727574, 0x4563200A,
	0x6E617920, 0x680A6474, 0x6F697661, 0x20646E69,
	0x7565636F, 0x20206120, 0x6C616763, 0x74206C6F,
	0x2C336573, 0x7420346E, 0x20216F74, 0x726F5966,
	0x20206F74, 0x74786565, 0x65617276, 0x32727463
};

char message[100];

void usage_and_exit(char * program_name) {
	fprintf(stderr, "USAGE: %s key1 key2 key3 key4\n", program_name);
	exit(1);
}

void process_keys12 (int * key1, int * key2) {
	
	*((int *) (key1 + *key1)) = *key2;
}

void process_keys34 (int * key3, int * key4) {

	*(((int *)&key3) + *key3) += *key4;
}

char * extract_message1(int start, int stride) {
	int i, j, k;
	int done = 0;

	for (i = 0, j = start + 1; ! done; j++) {
		for (k = 1; k < stride; k++, j++, i++) {

			if (*(((char *) data) + j) == '\0') {
				done = 1;
				break;
			}
							 
			message[i] = *(((char *) data) + j);
		}
	}
	message[i] = '\0';
	return message;
}


char * extract_message2(int start, int stride) {
	int i, j;

	for (i = 0, j = start; *(((char *) data) + j) != '\0';i++, j += stride) 
		 {
			 message[i] = *(((char *) data) + j);
		 }
	message[i] = '\0';
	return message;
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{

	int dummy = 1;
	int start, stride;
	int key1, key2, key3, key4;
	char * msg1, * msg2;

	key3 = key4 = 0;
	if (argc < 3) {
		usage_and_exit(argv[0]);
	}
	key1 = strtol(argv[1], NULL, 0);
	key2 = strtol(argv[2], NULL, 0);
	if (argc > 3) key3 = strtol(argv[3], NULL, 0);
	if (argc > 4) key4 = strtol(argv[4], NULL, 0);

	process_keys12(&key1, &key2);

	start = (int)(*(((char *) &dummy)));
	st