From: baumbach@atmel.com (Peter Baumbach)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 11:01:06 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: cypher breaking and genetic algorithms
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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