Re: Greetings

going on, I am led to beleive that Cypherpunks is setting up a distributed system to break some cryptographic system or factor a large number.

See http://www.brute.cl.cam.ac.uk/brute/ We are trying to show that the US Govt' crippling iof exportable "secure" protocols to 40 bits leaves them open to CRACKing by others than the NSA.

I would expect that a constant net connection would be a requirement to participate in such an interesting event.

No -- that is the preferred way, but you can use a network connection (WWW or direct socket) to get part of the address space to search, process it offline, and then report back your findings later.