Greetings

Greetings, everyone.  I just discovered this list a few days ago
and have been monitoring since then.  It's pretty interesting.
I'd like to get involved.  I'm very interested in cryptography
and mathematics, but I have very little cryptographic experience.
(hm. Is there a Cypherpunks FAQ?) From the conversation that's
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.  I would expect that a constant net
connection would be a requirement to participate in such an
interesting event.  In any case, I have a 486DX-50 running
Linux and I'm interested and curious and willing to learn
and help in any way I can.

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Tobin Fricke, Alias Light Ray         dr261@cleveland.freenet.edu
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> 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.