Re: genetic algorithms for crypto analysis

The problem I see for finding spikes is that this is still a brute force approach. The advantage that biological populations have is in growing new test processors exponentially, so that there is a chance to attack something which is merely exponential. An algorithm or breaking method which helps against modern cryptosystems would have to turn the spikes into gentle hills by some sort of mapping of the problem space. Biological attack machines would still run up against limits (e.g., the amoung of carbon in the solar system), so we have to spread the spikes. In fact, we have to spread them over the whole space since enlargement of the key space can take a gentle but limited-width hill and make it look/act like a spike.