  Cryptanalysis of knapsack cipher is a fascinating problem which has eluded
the computing fraternity for decades. However, in most of the cases either the
time complexity of the proposed algorithm is colossal or an insufficient number
of samples have been taken for verification. The present work proposes a
Genetic Algorithm based technique for cryptanalysis of knapsack cipher. The
experiments conducted prove the validity of the technique. The results prove
that the technique is better than the existing techniques. An extensive review
has been carried out in order to find the gaps in the existing techniques. The
work paves the way of the application of computational intelligence techniques
to the discipline of cryptanalysis.
