Re: cypher breaking and genetic algorithms

Scott Collins writes:

[...] between. Being one bit off in the key should give a totally fruitless result. GA's don't help much with such ciphers. [...]

What if the GA "knew" the plain-text, the cyphertext, and the encryption algorithm, and was searching for a decryption algorithm without the encryption key? Would that be for fruitful? Peter Baumbach baumbach@atmel.com