  I consider the many ways in which evolved information-flows are restricted
and metabolic resources protected and hidden -- the thesis of living phenomena
as evolutionary cryptosystems. I present the information theory of secrecy
systems and discuss mechanisms acquired by evolved lineages that encrypt
sensitive heritable information with random keys. I explore the idea that
complexity science is a cryptographic discipline as "frozen accidents", or
various forms of regularized randomness, historically encrypt adaptive
dynamics.
